The Lives of Tonio (Diogo Morgado), his petty crook best friend, TC (Wilson Heredia), and his beautiful lover Cleo (The Walking Dead, The Arrangement's Christine Evangelista) are tightly woven together in this downwardly spiraling thriller. Red Butterfly is the story of two star-crossed lovers, Tonio and Cleo, whose lives get caught in the crosshairs of TC's hellish nightmare.
A local call-girl's death (Carrie - Odd Mom Out's Byrdie Bell) from an apparent drug overdose is the catalyst for a chain of events that can't be undone. When it's discovered that TC may be responsible this woman's death, he wrangles Tonio to help cover up the act. TC has other plans as the situation rapidly progressses from bad to worse when a weathered Hell's Kitchen detective, Dutch, (The Lincoln Lawyer's Laurence Mason) throws himself into the fray.
Tonio and TC are destined to collide as TC's paranoia worsens. Cleo's fate is sealed when she finds the bad batch of heroin responsible for Carrie's overdose.