Eyewitness

Ziggy spends the summer in Malta living with his adult sister Pippa at their grandfather's lighthouse. To ease his boredom, he invents a vivid fantasy world of adventure. His stories earn him a growing reputation as the family's worst liar.

To cope with his boredom, Ziggy creates elaborate adventures in his mind. The imaginary exploits become a fixture around the lighthouse and the town, shaping how others see him. The tales cement his reputation as the family's most persistent liar, whether or not they are true.

Pippa drives Ziggy to town to join the crowds welcoming a visiting African dignitary. The event draws locals and tourists into a tense, festive atmosphere. Tom, a young tourist, is introduced as Pippa's new acquaintance.

As the dignitary's open-top car passes, gunfire erupts and the vehicle is struck, killing everyone inside. Ziggy is the only spectator who witnesses the attackers up close, including a man in a policeman's uniform. Realizing Ziggy saw them, the killers begin a frantic pursuit through the streets.

The assassins chase Ziggy as he tries to escape. Pippa and Tom find him at the town edge and press him for details about what he saw. Yet the adults refuse to believe his extraordinary tale.

A Malta TV broadcast announces martial law and a curfew, tightening control over the town. Tom chooses to stay overnight with Ziggy, Pippa, and Grandfather in the lighthouse to weather the crisis. The new danger overshadow the earlier event.

Grandfather grows convinced Ziggy's story is true when police arrive to check who is staying at the lighthouse. Ziggy panics and runs off into the night, fleeing into the streets and shadows. The danger surrounding Ziggy intensifies as night falls.

In town, Ziggy hides with Ann-Marie, a local girl who tries to help him. She breaks curfew to assist him and is picked up by the police. She is later slain by the assassin's brother, a renegade cop, heightening the stakes of Ziggy's escape.

The killers spot Ziggy and pursue him into the catacombs beneath a church. They kill a priest who offered sanctuary to the boy, but Ziggy manages another narrow escape through the labyrinthine tunnels. The catacombs become a dangerous hideout for Ziggy as the pursuit continues.

Back at the lighthouse, Pippa, Tom, and Grandfather drive into town to locate Ziggy. They eventually find him hiding under a table in the dead priest's church, confirming the danger and the truth of his story.

The uniformed assassin spots their car and shoots at the lighthouse house. Grandpa and Tom devise Molotov cocktails using paraffin lamps filled with brandy to buy time against the attackers. The improvised defense allows the group to slip away and keep fighting back.

With the attackers stalled, Ziggy, Pippa, Tom, and Grandpa slip out toward Pippa's car. They begin a tense escape through the town, hoping to reach safety before the pursuers close in again.

A dramatic pursuit unfolds as they race toward the rocky coast. The assassin uses a police cruiser to ram their car off the road, almost sending them over a cliff. The tension peaks as the fight for survival continues.

Grandpa and the Chief of Police arrive just in time to shoot the assassin, sending his cruiser plunging into the water. The immediate danger ends, but dawn breaks on the aftermath of the night's ordeals. The family survives, bonded by the night’s events.