[stylist] synopsis

[Justin H. Williams]

I like it.  Are  you going to intwine the lives together in the story?



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From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Judith Bron
Sent: Monday, November 15, 2010 12:59 PM
To: Stylist
Subject: [stylist] synopsis

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.  
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