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Kevin's (Josh Ubaldi) funeral rockets John (Tim Swain) into the orbit of the flamboyant Solange (Mahogany Reynolds), a b-movie actress/one hit wonder best known in Europe for her roles in 80's Italian horror movies.

Movies with loosely translated titles like Rabid!, Rat Attack and The Ghoul School.

Solange was Kevin's muse. Kevin was Solange's confidant. Her mysterious, glamorous lifestyle is the stuff of legend to John via Kevin's prior conversations, emails and wild phone calls. After Kevin's suicide, John is eager to escape into her world.

Seemingly on a whim, she invites John to accompany her to Europe as her Boy Friday. She's going to work on her guerilla foodie tv pilot "The Un-Tourist Guide." John accepts the challenge. He's been in a cubicle temping rut for a few years, and with the death of Kevin he figures he hasn't got much more to lose. Oops.

As John follows her into heady whirlwind romances with cute French pop stars and deadly (but hot!) Milanese model managers, they barely survive murderous performance artists in Paris and fatal gourmet food poisonings in Italy. John begins to realize that Solange's world is far more complex and dangerous than he could possibly have imagined. Her chosen lifestyle abounds with trips, tricks, and traps.

And John's the bait.

 

Based on the novel by James Derek Dwyer, Todd Verow's
THE BOY WITH THE SUN IN HIS EYES is a sexy-smart, poverty-jetset homage to 80's cinema featuring amazing new music by Sally Shapiro, Ben Onono, Plateau Repas, Paramo, Team Plastique, Colin Owens and William Bottin.

Shot on location in Paris, Milan and Berlin