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TROLL

TROLL
By Sara Mehideb

GENRE: Thriller / Suspense, Other
LOGLINE:

When a vengeful digital intelligence expert discovers his daughter was murdered rather than driven to suicide, he becomes "Troll" — hijacking a live television broadcast to force her killers to face judgment before the entire world.

SYNOPSIS:

He was declared dead twenty years ago.

Carter Wilson once worked in the shadows for a hidden organization that manipulates human behavior for profit — until the operation collapsed, his identity was erased, and he vanished into the skin of a man no one knew existed: his own twin brother.

He rebuilt a life. He buried the past. Until his daughter, Elizabeth, is found dead — ruled a suicide after a brutal online bullying campaign.

But Carter knows a suicide note doesn't explain everything. And when the pieces stop fitting together, grief transforms into something far more dangerous.

A masked figure resurfaces from the digital underground. He calls himself Troll.

One by one, he abducts the people connected to his daughter's final days — a social media influencer chasing fame at any cost, a young man hiding violent secrets behind a friendly face, and a teenage girl who knows far more than she's willing to admit. He imprisons them inside an abandoned digital amusement park built for a world that never got to open it.

Then he takes his revenge to the one place no one can look away from: live national television.

As millions watch, Troll hijacks the broadcast, turning a primetime interview into a public reckoning — forcing his hostages, and the country, to confront a truth far larger than one girl's death. Behind Elizabeth's story lies a hidden organization, a missing data chip powerful enough to expose it, a police investigation rotting with corruption, and a masked enforcer known only as "The Crocodile."

But the deepest secret isn't the organization's.

It's Troll's own.

And when it finally surfaces — in the final moments, in front of everyone — it will force him, and the audience, to ask who the real monster in this story has been all along.

TROLL is a slow-burn descent that opens in the middle of the storm and unravels backward, layer by layer, until the very last scene detonates everything the audience thought they understood.

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