August 2015, days before the start of a new semester, MIRAND J. WRIGHT, a poor, Columbia University, sociology graduate student, originally from Florida is found dead inside her upper west side dorm room. Her only goal was to acquire an Ivy League education and publish her dissertation on ‘The Medicalization of Success’, a body of work that would expose the depths of the amphetamine epidemic on college campus’ and in the bellies of children across America. Yet, Miranda’s secret involvement in the 65 billion-dollar unregulated Assisted Reproductive Technology (A.R.T.) Industry in the U.S., as a highly paid, repeat egg donor, injecting herself daily with hormones and subjecting herself to increasingly invasive procedures is her own non-negotiable path to success. So, who or what caused Miranda’s untimely and shocking death? And why? PROFESSOR LIN YANG, Miranda’s cut throat Asian-American Advisor; JT, a fellow coed and part time sexual partner; CLARISSA, a needy off campus best friend; JEN, a jealous fellow RA (resident advisor); or NATURE NUTURE INC., Miranda’s egg donation agency? Each with an agenda of their own. The preceding eighteen months holds the answer, but things aren’t always what they seem in higher education. Are they? |
August 2015, along a piece of highway somewhere in America, at the tail end of a family road trip, EVANGELINE, a young mother, wife and daughter to a recently deceased mother hits her emotional rock bottom.
While stuck in traffic, she escapes her family’s moving vehicle and runs toward her version of freedom, another man, a motorcyclist. Within a few hours a tragic accident leaves her moving in and out of consciousness with a serious head injury. Over the course of three hours, as others work to save her body, she works to save her life by traveling through the landscape of her mind. She is joined on her journey, which travels to Rome, Sicily, the Tuscan mountains, New York City and its outer boroughs by the voice of THE MOTORCYCLIST, everyman, yet no man in particular. With her captive audience, she shares a lifetime of stories of sex, infidelity and escapism from all vantage points equally; man, woman, child and even mistress. While exposing the increasingly complex layers of infidelity, Evangeline searches for an answer to a question she has yet to verbalize. But can she save herself? Even if the doctors can't? |
August 2015, on an Upstate New York Farm, NOAH PRESTON, a solar farmer, father of four young adults and recent widower is convinced the recent finding of dirty well water on his property caused his wife’s untimely death. While in the throes of grief, with his youngest child, EVE as an accomplice, Noah attempts to build an entirely a new water technology that farms water from thin air. His only intent is to protect his family from the impending water crisis and the increasingly corrupt world around him. Though, Noah’s efforts are thwarted at first by local government and religion, but as his creation begins to take shape, he also unwittingly peaks the interest of Corporate America, who has an even bigger reason to stop him. A fictional origin story of an existing water technology and a modern reimagining of the timeless Flood Myth. It’s a story of one man's attempt to withdraw from a society he views as crippled; morally, politically and environmentally, but more importantly about the power of grief in the creative process. But withdrawal isn't really possible? Is it? |