Dark Soul River

 

For almost twenty years, the Kaw Valley Killer terrorized the cities around the Kansas River. Now, he’s been identified as a landscaper named Nathanael Ambrose, who claims that he only killed people that God, speaking through his flowers, ordered him to. Ambrose has been arrested, convicted, and sentenced to death for five murders, though Detective Alana Kimball knows there are many others. The clock is ticking– he will be put to death in five days, and unless Kimball can get him to talk, the secret of how many victims there truly were — and where the remaining bodies might be buried — will remain unknown forever.

When Saarathi, a devout Hindu, arrives from India to settle the affairs of his sister, who is presumed to have been one of Ambrose’s victims, the Kaw Valley Killer makes a surprising offer: he will divulge only to Saarathi the secrets that remain.

Now, for five days, Saarathi will be immersed in a cat-and-mouse conversation with a serial killer. As one by one the full scope of Ambrose’s violent reign of terror is revealed, Saarathi slowly begins to recognize that the truth will be more than he could ever have prepared for, and that Ambrose’s twisted reign of terror might not yet be fully over.

In this movie, that can best be described as The Silence of the Lambs with a cross-cultural twist, suspense and thrills combine with philosophical/theological explorations of the human soul. The writer/director Vijay M. Rajan, born and raised in multiple countries around the world, seeks to bring a global, contemporary point of view to all of his projects. This film, completely independently funded, is also the brainchild of a team of talented, creative up-and-coming artists — all more than capable of bringing a Hollywood-level edge and sensibility to a lower-budget independent film. The goal is to achieve distribution and share this twist-filled story with as many viewers as possible through theatrical and/or streaming distribution. But we need your help. Only with your support can this project take flight.