Short Synopsis

In The Odds, seventeen year old Desson’s life is thrown into chaos when he finds his best friend dead of an apparent suicide. Compelled to uncover the truth, Desson comes face to face with the dark secrets of his own complicity in Barry’s death. Delving into a dark world cloaked within a middle-class neighbourhood, the film casts an eye on the action surrounding an illegal gambling ring run by teenagers.

Long Synopsis

Desson Orr is a gambler, a card shark, a ladies man. And he’s just seventeen. He likes the competition of poker, the thrill a dice game, even the buzz he gets from betting on high-school wrestling. Things are just more exciting when there's something at stake.

When his best friend Barry turns up dead of an apparent suicide, Desson knows that can’t be the real cause, and he is compelled to uncover the truth. Working alone, he plunges into the dark and dangerous underbelly of an affluent neighbourhood where his search leads him to the tough bookie Paul, fallen wrestling star Sam, brutal gangster Terry, and the mysterious place known only as Wang’s.

As he delves deeper into this world Desson must also come face to face with the dark secrets of his own complicity in Barry’s death, which is more tangible than anyone imagines. Driven by guilt, he needs to know what really went down, even though it means he won’t come out clean.

Tight, quick and charged, The Odds is a murder mystery that casts an eye on the action surrounding an illegal gambling ring run by teenagers.