These are all guesses- I believe this film is about a woman who is a law student that constantly refers to a school assignment as a "case" working on the 150 year old case of a murdered slave which is being covered up by the current day heirs of her myrderers because they're scared nobody will buy their sugar anymore. A detective who murders a guy and makes it look like self defense (this is not a spoiler, it's revealed in the first 10 minutes) is assigned to her case after she is mysteriously kidnapped after finding bones in her backyard and she is later found in the abandoned sugar factory which was operated by slaves and prisoners.
I spent the whole 87 minutes going, "Who?" "Wait, why are they here?" "What was that conversation even about?" "Where are they?" and last but not least, "They needed bolt cutters to remove a shoelace from a door?"
The acting is mostly terrible and the plot is baffling. Some of the cinematography is alright but everyone kind of looks horribly pale and yellow.
On the other hand, Eric Roberts is in more than one scene and in a couple he even moves around and does things, so that's cool. The one groundskeeper guy, he was like a diamond in the rough who almost makes you feel like you're watching a real movie.
The ending was just bizarre and totally unsatisfying. Unacceptable, even. But, admittedly, I sat through the whole thing. I kind of want to watch it again just to see if this film was really that poorly written and executed or if I was just too stupid or drunk to understand certain aspects .
