This series delves into the dark underbelly of modern society, exploring a radical search for meaning and catharsis. It follows disillusioned individuals who find intense release and a perverse sense of community in clandestine, bare-knuckle fighting. The narratives offer a provocative commentary on consumerism, masculinity, and the human desire for authentic experience in a sterile world.
Every weekend, in basements and parking lots across the country, young men with good white-collar jobs and absent fathers take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other barehanded just as long as they have to.
Ten years after starting Project Mayhem, Sebastian lives a mundane life, but it won't last long, the wife has seen to that, soon he's back where he started, but this go-round he's got more at stake than his own life