You know the story. You know how it ends. When love is pressed too hard, it explodes.

In this contemporary reimagining of Shakespeare's classic, tragedy is found not in love itself, but in the containment of it. In the shadowed underbelly of the modern metropolis, Romeo and Juliet's intimacy is driven underground until passion turns to violence and ruin.

But in the end, what is forced underground will always find a way to grow through the cracks.