[stylist] synopsis

[Judith Bron]

I thought about your collective advice and began working on a one page synopsis.  Does this, ignoring all the other material I've given you, sell the story?  Thanks for all your help, Judith
Jennifer Rabinowitz, unconscious after being hit by a car, looks around the strange place she ended up in.  In front of her is a corridor that seems to be lit with flickering candles.  She hears her long deceased mother's ethereal voice talking to her.  

Jennifer, whose life is abysmal due to constant anti Semitic derisions by classmates, wants to stay with her mother.  But her mother tells her that it's not yet her time to stay.  She has to learn, "To live.  To love.  To hope.  To know who you are, and what you are!"  Jennifer tries to change her mother's mind, but slams back into her body aware of intense pain.

Sheila, Jennifer's foster mother, remembers the day when a mysterious messenger delivered the only possessions left by Jennifer's parents, a book with an inserted paper written in foreign script.  The messenger handed Sheila the items telling her to present them to Jennifer on her seventeenth birthday and left.  Sheila ran to the window to watch him drive away, but no car appeared on the street or driveway.  She couldn't see a man walking away from the house.   

On the same morning in Jenna, New York PESSI GOLDBERG confronts her very ill mother. Content with her sequestered life Pessi's disagreements with her mother have defined their relationship for months.  Pessi stomps out of the house after her mother suggests she become involved with other girls like a belligerent child leaving her mother on the sofa in their poverty stricken home.  

That afternoon Pessi attends a lecture at her school.  Her classmate CHAVY LEVY approaches her at the back of the room and encourages the recluse to come sit with other classmates.  Chavy's sense of humor and winning personality helps Pessi emerge from the thick defensive walls she has erected around herself. 

On her seventeenth birthday Sheila presents Jennifer with her parents' possessions, but Jennifer can't read the foreign language.  She places them in her backpack.  On many nights in darkened bedrooms she clutches these items asking her parents to lead her to the life they wanted for her.   The Letter

is the saga of how a little thing called, "The Letter" has the power to influence the life of a child born long after it was written.