Check Mate
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In Winter city, a small town in the middle of nowhere, Penny Grey mets her neighbor Al every thursday at the park to play a game of chess. This is a distraction for Al whose wife went missing one year ago. When things begin to unfold about the case during the one year anniversary. Penny finds herself on a mission to find what is really going on. Will she find the truth or leave Al to still be mourning the loss of his wife?
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