Mystery Ride is a neo-noir thriller of love, murder and betrayal, set in the steamy swirling hot pools of rural New Zealand.  A woman unravels a small town conspiracy of silence surrounding the murder of a hitchhiker in rural New Zealand and falls in love with a handsome brooding Maori guy she increasingly fears may be the killer.

The intense heat and gathering storms of summer in Bucharest are the background to this unsettling, contemporary urban story.  Daniel, (Jamie Sives) a journalist, receives a story from his ex-girlfriend Maria, (Ana Ularu - pictured) in which her fictional self offers to play the prostitute, to have sex with him, one last time, for money.