Because It Makes My Heart Beat Faster
When Jonathan Fairchildis disturbed one night by a strange noise, he doesn’t really believe it couldbe a burglar – after all, there’s nothing much in his house worth stealing.It’s more likely, he thinks, to be Liz, his wife, who walked out on him twodays ago. So he heads downstairs, only to be surprised by a man who hurls himagainst the wall, puts a gun to his head and tells him it’s “your time todie...”
Thus begins the longestnight of Jonathan’s life. It soon transpires that the uninvited guest is not aburglar at all, but a man with a mission. Jonathan has been “chosen”; it’s theIntruder’s duty to carry out the execution. But before he kills Jonathan, hehas to know what it is that Jonathan is guilty of. Jonathan’s protestations ofinnocence fall on deaf ears; “everyone’s guilty of something” and Jonathan mustpay.
But as the nightprogresses, Jonathan begins to suspect that there are darker reasons for his
predicament; that this isin fact a game of psychological torture. Not knowing whether he has much longerto live, Jonathan’s life flashes before him as he is forced to contemplate hispast actions and behaviour and link them to the present.
As the truth slowlystarts to emerge, it is not clear who is victim and who is culprit, who isright and who is wrong, in a battle of wits, conscience and will to survive, inwhich there can be only one winner...
