HEROINES OF CHAOS. PLAN B ALL OUR TOMORROWS

Student Forum: Climate Change solutions; Environmental Economics, Deglobalisation. Degrowth. The Tragedy of the Commons.

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SYNOPSIS

LOGLINE: When Zsófi inherits a cherry orchard, and Cyclone Gabrielle destroys it, she must decide whether to reinstate and rebuild, or to go with Plan B.

GENRE: A science-based eco-disaster story of tomorrow, with echoes of The Day After Tomorrow, Interstellar, and Chekhov’s play The Cherry Orchard. One birthing scene; no other nudity. Minimal profanity. No on-screen violence.

SYNOPSIS: Both heroines begin as schoolgirls. Tamara is a fresh immigrant. Zsófi has just lost both parents. Zsófi is Head Prefect. She sympathizes with Greta Thunberg and Just Stop Oil. She avoids synthetics, and plastic. And seeks out like-minded females and femmes.

Tamara also has crushes on girls. She has rebelled against her religious upbringing, and found Nietzsche.

Yuvan, Zsófi’s great-uncle, deems it fine to pillage, rape and plunder the natural world for money. And girls?

Flooding destroys the cherry orchard. They go with Plan B, and find a new orchard somewhere cooler in the hills. Zsófi campaigns to stop oil. Tamara teaches migrants.

A global pandemic strikes. Four men menace Zsófi. Colony collapse disorder hits the beehives. The girls burn the hives, rebuild, and replant with blueberry and olive.

Yuvan dies of the plague. Then Zsófi dies home-birthing her baby. Grief. Odval lives, and Tamara brings her up. Wildfire! Tamara and Odval survive, and start over again.

TIME/PLACE: New Zealand, 2022 onwards. For realism and credibility, the main timeline spans two decades. Thus, the schoolgirls are in their mid-thirties toward the end.

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