A huge 8 pages today! I am nearing the end of Act Two. Currently writing that huge sequence of scenes that sends our protag into a spin that climaxes in Act Three! This is the bit I enjoy the most because writing Act Three is where I've been heading ever since I conceived the story. I have known that my characters have been building up their story through the last 80 pages and now their lives are about to be turned upside down by me! They must now plow through to the resolution! I'm sorry to do it to you guys, but your life is about to become hell for the next 10 pages! But it's ok, you're going to pull through and be better off because of it! Trust me!
I'm posting the logline and Synopsis so readers can get an idea as to the kind of story/script I'm creating here. These have yet to be signed off by the producer so I'm posting them for your perusal.
Welcome to 'THE SAN YSIDRO LEAP'...
LOGLINE
Abandoned in the dustbowl of a Tijuana slum, two teenage brothers, Miguel and Javier risk their lives crossing the US/Mexico border to reunite with their mother. Forced to separate and make the treacherous journey alone, they discover that life in the US is nothing like their expectations.
SYNOPSIS
Tijuana, Mexico, the stifling summer. Two brothers, Miguel and Javier, risk their lives on top of the city’s Municipal Garbage dump, sifting through trash to find objects to sell back to American tourists. This is their life as street kids. Abandoned by their mother five years ago when she crossed the border into the US, hoping to start a new life for them, Miguel is now inadvertently charged with being the father figure to his younger brother. But this isn’t the life he wants or the life he should have. He should be experiencing the moments that shape a teenage boy. Best friends, adolescence, and a girl’s first kiss. He resents his mother for leaving and for breaking the promise of sending for her sons, so Miguel tries to start a new life for them both by attempting to cross the border. But his attempts are thwarted each time it looks as though they will succeed. Not until a phone call from their mother while living at the Shelter for Repatriated Minors, does it seem that there’s light at the end of the border tunnel. But at the gates to San Diego, their mother’s smugglers separate the two boys. Assisted by an immigrant smuggler, Carlos, they make the leap into the US and begin their individual journeys amongst the mass expanse of America and its cities, hoping to soon be reunited with their mother.
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