'QUID PRO QUO,' a Journey Into a Netherworld of People Afflicted With a Perverse Desire to Be Disabled, to Premiere as a Sneak Preview on HDNet Movies - Wednesday, June 11 at 8:00 P.M. ET

'QUID PRO QUO,' a Journey Into a Netherworld of People Afflicted With a Perverse Desire to Be Disabled, to Premiere as a Sneak Preview on HDNet Movies - Wednesday, June 11 at 8:00 P.M. ET

Writer/Director Carlos Brooks takes viewers into an unknown world where few have been before

DALLAS, May 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Why would someone want to be paralyzed when they really aren't?

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In QUID PRO QUO, Writer/Producer Carlos Brooks unveils a strange world of able-bodied people who pretend to be paralyzed.

In the movie, Isaac Knott (Nick Stahl) is a Public Radio reporter in New York City. When he was eight, his mother and father died in an automobile accident that left him in a wheelchair.

On air, Isaac recounts how he recently received an anonymous tip from someone identified only as "Ancient Chinese Girl." She tells him a perfectly able-bodied man walked into an emergency ward downtown, and attempted to bribe a doctor into amputating his leg.

As Isaac investigates the eerie tip, he encounters Fiona (Vera Farmiga) who leads Isaac into this netherworld of people who want to be disabled. Like a contemporary noir detective film, QUID PRO QUO follows Isaac as he embarks on a dream-like journey to pull back the layers of what makes people feel whole.

HDNet Movies will present QUID PRO QUO as a special Sneak Preview on Wednesday, June 11 at 8:00 p.m. ET, with an encore presentation at 11:35 p.m. ET.

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