Noah’s Turn is the darkly humorous story of Noah Douglas and his consuming envy of a much more successful friend. Adrift in life at the age of forty-one, Noah slides deep into a pit of his own making, alternately drinking, smooth-talking an elderly aunt he hopes will leave him money, and sleeping with whoever will have him. He has also lost his job and his wife. But at a pivotal moment, he crosses the line between ordinary human weakness and outright depravity when he kills his successful friend with a machete. Noah must deal with the mental and moral fallout from the murder, for which he feels surprisingly little remorse and appears not even to be a suspect.

Fast-paced, funny and laced with sharp observations on vanity and hubris, Ken Finkleman’s Noah’s Turn is a short masterpiece.

Ken Finkleman is a Canadian television and film writer, producer and actor. He is best known as the writer, creator and producer of the CBC Television series The Newsroom (also aired on PBS), in which he starred as television news producer George Findlay for three seasons. He also produced Married Life (Comedy Central, Atlantis Films), Foolish Heart (CBC), Foreign Objects (CBC), More Tears (CBC) and At The Hotel (CBC), and in the 1980s wrote the screenplays for a number of Hollywood films. He is currently at work on a new television series that will air on The Movie Network in Fall 2010.

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