Bring Me The Derek: A Karate Opera

The mean streets of Barrington, Illinois. Home to several small businesses, nationally ranked public schools, and a seedy criminal underbelly threatening to destroy it all. DEREK ARATE, a 16 year old schoolboy who has devoted his life to learning the ways of karate after losing his father in a freak karate accident, is on the cusp of realizing that he may be the key to unlocking Barrington’s villainous secrets. UNCLE CHARLES, his uncle, stepped in to raise the boy along with his deceased brother’s wife CHRISTINE. Uncle Charles has a vested interest in Derek’s journey, keeping his nephew from the same freak karate tragic fate that took his
father. What Derek does not know is that his uncle may have had more to do with his father’s untimely passing than anyone could know...