Two adulterous lovers escape the justice system for murdering her husband but must suffer the self-imposed consequences created by guilt in their short, tumultuous, and tragic marriage that follows.
Concept
Murder Is Not Enough is a modern adaptation of the 1868 French Novel Thérèse Raquin by Emile Zola. Instead of in 19th-century Paris, France, the story is in 21st-century Paris, Tennessee. The story is a psychological drama, not a murder mystery. It is suspenseful, creepy, and horrifying. It’s a contained screenplay in a pastry/cafe shop with an upstairs apartment. The script demonstrates the agony of psychological guilt in a murder that consumes ordinary people and builds until they explode. I can quickly adapt the location as well as the ethnicity of the characters to fit your production parameters.