"Perfect Shiny Black"
by Jan Wilson
Feature script, drama
Logline:
Two lonely outsiders, a frumpy woman and a young East Indian man, find solace in each other in a tiny desert community in New Mexico as she tries fiercely to save his family’s grocery store from going under in this isolated area where everyone knows everyone else’s business. Their desperate affair sets off a chain reaction of betrayals, destruction and chaos in this fishbowl community.
Two lonely outsiders, a frumpy woman and a young East Indian man, find solace in each other in a tiny desert community in New Mexico as she tries fiercely to save his family’s grocery store from going under in this isolated area where everyone knows everyone else’s business. Their desperate affair sets off a chain reaction of betrayals, destruction and chaos in this fishbowl community.
Synopsis:
Lynnette doesn’t really mind her dead-end life in the tiny desert community of Meadowlake, New Mexico. She’s got a routine life: go to work, go home to her dilapidated mobile home, and once in a while organize first aid classes at the Community Center for a handful of disinterested residents. She finds the greatest solace in butter pecan ice cream and a good night’s sleep.
Lynnette is loyal to the local grocery store and hears from the East Indian owners that their son Vishal is coming home from college. She remembers him as a gawky, gangly teenager and is stunned to see that he has returned a very grown up and handsome man.
Both Vishal and Lynnette feel like outsiders – Lynnette because she’s a lonely, frumpy odd duck, and Vishal because he’s the only East Indian man within a 100 mile radius of Meadowlake. These two lonely souls gravitate toward each other and a passionate, ill-fated affair ignites.
Lynnette doesn’t really mind her dead-end life in the tiny desert community of Meadowlake, New Mexico. She’s got a routine life: go to work, go home to her dilapidated mobile home, and once in a while organize first aid classes at the Community Center for a handful of disinterested residents. She finds the greatest solace in butter pecan ice cream and a good night’s sleep.
Lynnette is loyal to the local grocery store and hears from the East Indian owners that their son Vishal is coming home from college. She remembers him as a gawky, gangly teenager and is stunned to see that he has returned a very grown up and handsome man.
Both Vishal and Lynnette feel like outsiders – Lynnette because she’s a lonely, frumpy odd duck, and Vishal because he’s the only East Indian man within a 100 mile radius of Meadowlake. These two lonely souls gravitate toward each other and a passionate, ill-fated affair ignites.
Meadowlake, New Mexico is a real place -- click here to see what the film will look like if shot in Meadowlake.