Vinnie, a decorated but broken former special forces soldier, lives alone in his flat, haunted by his past and crippled

by  PTSD. He spends Guy Fawkes night preparing for what he intends to be his final evening on

earth: a sandwich, some photographs, and a pistol under the cover of fireworks.

 

His plan derails when James, a young evangelist, knocks at his door offering salvation. Mistakenly

invited in, James becomes both captive and confessor as Vinnie slips between bitter humour, explosive

violence, and harrowing war memories. The encounter escalates into a tense hostage situation —

highlighting a dangerously blurred line between soldier and civilian life.
 

As the police close in, James tries to talk Vinnie down, but Vinnie’s spiral into trauma,

dark comedy, and bursts of tenderness makes him unpredictable. What starts as a simple visit

becomes a twisted clash of ideologies: faith versus fatalism, survival versus surrender. But Vinnie’s demons

aren’t just his own. In Act Two, the story pivots — revealing Louisa, a child soldier he once “rescued”

but effectively drafted into his warped legacy. Through her eyes, we see how trauma

perpetuates itself: passed down, repackaged, and paid forward.
 

Winged Daggers is a darkly comic, claustrophobic psychological thriller

about a man who survived the battlefield but lost the peace, and how the cycle of

violence doesn’t end when the war does...   it recruits.