Beautiful Ink

"BEAUTIFUL INK" is a gritty drama and love story based in present day New Jersey. Mike Connelly and his girlfriend Kimberly Roberts are two young artists deeply in love, stuck in their drug and crime plagued neighborhood. Kim's body is Mike's canvas, as he's been tattooing her emotional and cathartic poetry all over her for years. This is a way of sharing and expressing both of their art and passions. But art isn't the only thing they share, both are addicted to drugs. When Mike and Kim make the decision to kick the drugs and move west for a better life, it seems like everything starts to go downhill. Bruce Connelly, Mike's father, is fighting his own alcohol addiction and depression, Mike's best friend, Ryan Moss is brutally murdered, and Kim is desperately struggling through her heroin withdrawal. Mike tries his best to keep things together. But Tommy Hicks, a local thug and drug dealer, makes it his personal mission to get Kim under his control by keeping her hooked on dope in an effort to take her away from Mike. Through all of this, Mike and Kim still try to maintain their sanity and deep love for each other. This is a raw and emotional journey into a story about two young lovers in a situation which quickly becomes a matter of life and death.