About Crossing the Line

Jed Strich is a man most people overlook — a quiet Liverpudlian stuck in a life that never quite happens.

Jed Strich is a man most people overlook — a quiet Liverpudlian stuck in a life that never quite happens. Long shifts, low pay, and a future that feels permanently out of reach. His best friend, Jude, lives on big talk and small follow-through, while Marie — Jude’s girlfriend, and the woman Jed has loved in silence for years — seems destined for something better than all three of them.

One rain-soaked night, Jed’s life is knocked violently off course. In the wreck of a crashed car he finds a dead man — and a stash of drugs belonging to some of Liverpool’s most dangerous dealers. Among them is a strange green powder, a cocaine variant that does far more than energise. When Jed tries it, he discovers a new version of himself: articulate, persuasive, magnetic. A man people listen to.

What begins as experimentation becomes transformation. With Jude’s help, Jed starts selling the drugs, but the real high comes from influence. His sharpened voice draws attention not just from criminals and corrupt police, but from the political strategists battling over a national referendum on the monarchy. To them, Jed looks like the perfect working-class prophet — authentic, powerful, and easily steered.

As Jed rises, friendships buckle, loyalties fracture, and Marie is pulled into his orbit. But the dealers want their product back, Westminster wants a puppet, and Jed’s new voice may cost him everything he once valued.

Crossing the Line is a gritty, darkly satirical tale of transformation, temptation, and betrayal — a modern allegory about how far a man can fall when the world finally starts listening.