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BLACK FRIDAY: CN TOWER (BFCT)

BLACK FRIDAY: CN TOWER (BFCT)
By Tyson Tys

GENRE: Action
LOGLINE: When terrorists seize Toronto’s CN Tower on Black Friday and use it to hijack Canada’s financial system, a lone security officer must fight her way through the tower’s levels to save her wounded nephew and stop a nation from collapsing.

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BLACK FRIDAY: CN TOWER Feature Film Synopsis On Black Friday morning in Toronto, the CN Tower is packed with holiday shoppers, tourists, and families enjoying the city’s most iconic landmark. Among them is Amara, a quiet but highly capable tower security officer, who has brought her twelve-year-old nephew Liam with her for what should be a simple workday and a special outing. What begins as a warm, ordinary morning soon becomes the most dangerous crisis Canada has ever faced. A highly organized international crime team secretly infiltrates the tower. Led by the calm and ruthless Iron, the group is not interested in a normal ransom or robbery. Beneath the CN Tower lies a classified government system called NOSA — a hidden digital nerve center that connects Canada’s banks, identity databases, tax systems, and national financial infrastructure. By taking control of the tower, they gain access to the entire country. Within minutes, communications fail. Elevators lock. Doors seal. Explosives are planted. Tourists and staff become hostages. Across Canada, debit cards stop working, ATMs go dark, stock markets freeze, and families cannot buy food or medicine. The nation begins to panic. Amara realizes the attackers are using her security clearance to reach the NOSA core. When Iron threatens Liam’s life, she is forced to unlock the system, allowing the criminals to trigger a full-scale cyberattack on Canada. But Amara does not surrender. As her nephew is accidentally wounded during a struggle, she hides him in a maintenance bunker under the care of Noah, a kind, resourceful electrician who becomes Liam’s protector. While the country falls into chaos, Amara begins a one-woman war inside the tower. Injured, hunted, and outnumbered, she fights through service tunnels, electrical rooms, stairwells, and hidden floors, confronting each member of the terrorist team one by one. Every battle is not just physical, but emotional — Amara is not a trained soldier, but a woman fighting for her family and for millions of strangers she will never meet. Inside the control room, the group’s hacker, Hafiz, begins to realize the true cost of what they are doing as he watches Canada collapse on his screens. Amara reaches him through a secret radio channel, appealing to his conscience. She reminds him that behind every frozen bank account is a real person: a mother, a worker, a child, a family. Moved, Hafiz secretly begins reversing the cyberattack. As police surround the tower and special forces prepare to storm it, Iron plans to escape with full control of the system. But the hostages, inspired by Amara’s resistance, begin to fight back. Ordinary people — tourists, families, and workers — rise together, proving that courage can come from anyone. In the final moments, Amara defeats the last of Iron’s team, while Hafiz restores Canada’s financial system before being killed by Iron. The government’s forces breach the tower. Iron is finally stopped. The threat ends. Liam survives. Canada is saved. And Amara, battered and exhausted, quietly returns to anonymity — a reluctant hero who never wanted glory, only to protect the people she loves. Black Friday: CN Tower is a tense, emotional, and cinematic action thriller about courage inside chaos, ordinary people facing extraordinary danger, and one woman’s fight to protect both her family and an entire nation.

Sijun Cui

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