NARRATIVE - Returning

Narrative Series

Title: Returning

Page Count: 32 pp

Project Status: In Preproduction

Logline 

Returning follows Clark Brown, an astronaut who returns to his wife and daughter in Louisiana after being a decade in space; he has three years left on Earth before leaving for a final space exploration mission.

Synopsis

After spending 10 years in space, Clark returns to his hometown where he left his wife Alby and daughter Ava. He hopes to start again his life on Earth where he left it. But things have changed, Ava refuses to see him, she hands him the divorce paper Alby filled before leaving with her new boyfriend.

Clark is chased away from the house. For his last three remaining years on Earth before leaving for his final space exploration mission, Clark decides to build a new family with Valerie, a French astronaut he met. He pursues his dream of becoming a local musician like his father, by regularly singing at a local bar. Clark and Valerie have a baby together, he sees this as an opportunity to redeem himself. But once again, his family falls apart. When Valerie is not selected to be part of the next space exploration, she falls into depression and becomes an alcoholic. She can’t accept the idea of staying on and having to give up on her career. She divorces Clark and returns to France. Ava who finally thought she had found stability and control over her life, is shaken by her father’s arrival. Her boyfriend Reid abandons her and their 4-year-old child Willie to work in Mexico for his cousin’s business. Ava unable to deal with the turbulent child decides to give him for adoption. She is fired from the small laboratory she used to work at as an assistant and finds a job at a small store’s pharmacy. After giving up her dreams of being a successful biologist, she realizes she can’t even manage to have a normal life.

Returning is about father-daughter relationship, the attempt to start again, or try to move on?

It’s about the call to adventure and the desires that guide us through life. Why do we want to leave home? Why do we want to return home? It’s about those who’ve been called to take part in a final adventure and the ones who were left behind, waiting to take part in an extraordinary journey while that chance never came.

Team

Writer - Director: Lada Egorova

Seeking

We are looking for producing partners or a production company interested in helping develop this show and pitch it and film the pilot episode in Louisiana.

Contact

Lada Egorova

lada.egorovast@gmail.com