Lipstick Alibi
Five queens give five different alibis for the same missing man.
A complete story built for its form.
Six months after drag performer Sunday Saint dies in what looks like an overdose, The Last Word stages a memorial spectacular in her name. Before dawn, club co-owner Gideon Sorrell has vanished from a blood-soaked office.
Five members of the House of Belladonna lie about where they were and what they did. Detective Inez Solis sees one coordinated cover story. Instead, each lie protects a different secret involving shame, money, surveillance, grief, control, and the future of the club. As those lies collide, the missing-man investigation reopens Sunday’s death.
Five alibis. Five different reasons to lie.
Lipstick Alibi is built around behaviorally distinct deception. Each lie produces its own motive, object, consequence, and relationship; the mystery advances when those separate systems collide.
The backstage world is not decorative. Performance skill, image control, costume, surveillance, chosen family, and the economics of the club shape how evidence is created, concealed, and understood. Sunday remains active after her death through memory, messages, objects, behavior, and unfinished work.
Built into the story.
- 65 mobile-first vertical episodes.
- Principal environment: The Last Word nightclub, supported by bounded interiors.
- Genre blend: queer ensemble mystery, backstage noir, and emotional thriller.
- Close-up evidence designed for the portrait frame, including lipstick, a cuff, a jeweled case, phones, costumes, and divided faces.
- Episode movement from competing alibis through reconstructed events, active pursuit, controlled return, and consequence.
Complete story-locked screenplay and complete client-facing development package.
A one-sheet, visual pitch deck, spoiler-complete buyer treatment, complete screenplay, and related development materials are available for controlled review.
Bring the property into its next decision.
The property may be considered for acquisition, option, licensing, co-development, packaging, or producer-led production discussion. Buyer-directed changes would be treated as a defined future development conversation rather than represented as part of the current locked property.
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