False Rhymes is a 13-episode hip-hop drama series about the cost of fabricated success, friendship as complicity and the clash between personal truth and private power.
Bartender and rapper Hristo invents an image of himself as a successful musician to give his ill mother hope and his little sister security. But help from his wealthy friend Stoyan makes him the frontman for an asset-concealment and drug-dealing scheme connected to Stoyan’s influential father, Vladimir Lyubenov.
When the criminal scheme comes to light, Hristo becomes a convenient scapegoat. His only way out is to stop playing a part and tell the truth publicly through his music. Yet the visibility that gives him a chance as an artist also makes him a dangerous witness for people with the power to control media, institutions and violence.
The series follows a lie that begins as an attempt to protect a family and grows into a public scandal, the risk of prosecution and a threat to loved ones. At its centre are Hristo, Stoyan and their crumbling trust, while Hristo’s home, mother and sister bear the real cost of the conflict.
