FLORA

By Tia, Emily and Divine

Logline

■ When a woman’s life has fallen apart, she manages to find happiness again.
Starting with nurturing flowers….
Synopsis

Alice Johnson (34) and her Husband, Alfred Johnson (39) live in an isolated town in 1930’s
Kansas, they have a perfect life together in the suburbs. Their garden is thriving with
colourful, healthy flowers. Alice finds out that she is pregnant but shortly after her Husband
is called to War (WW2) leaving her alone with her unborn child (Flora).
Several months later, she receives a telegram informing her of her Husband’s death, she is
grief stricken which ultimately causes her to miscarry. The flowers in the garden also begin
to die. She is distraught. Exhausted, she falls asleep in the Kitchen. When she awakes, she
leaves the house.
While she is away flowers start to thrive on the Kitchen floor, she then returns with another
husband, this results in her becoming pregnant and entering the house with two children
(one of them named Flora). By then the flowers have grown up to the ceiling, reflecting her
happiness. Her children give her a picture of their family together.
As the family hug, it is revealed to the audience that she is alone holding the war telegram,
no flowers are shown in the kitchen and her mental state is revealed.
Main character
■ Name: Alice
■ Age: 34
■ Background: Married and has a family home
■ Relationships: Husband
■ Job/role: Housewife

Qualities/traits
■ Goals: To have a nuclear family and to be happy
■ Needs: Love and children
■ Flaws: Emotional unstable and too optimistic
Main world

■ Inherited world: Isolated town in 1930’s America

■ Class: Middle class
■ Time period: WW2
■ Personal world view: That the world is unfair, the universe is against her
The story
■ Story idea:
– Journey of loss
■ Emotions:
– Core emotion: Sadness and loss
■ Main character arch: Happy Happy

Sad Sad

■ Ending: There’s a twist, her new found happiness was a hallucination

■ Partial ending
■ Other characters: Husband, imaginary husband and imaginary children (x2)
 Mid point:
Inciting incident: Hallucinations Twist:
Husband dies at start, flowers begin It was all a
war to grow in Kitchen hallucination

Plot point 1: Plot point 2: Climax

She miscarriages She comes home She is happy with
due to grief with two children her new family
Non-Linear version
(Alternative)
■ Flowers start to grow in the Kitchen and the husband and children are seen
■ The characters hug and its revealed that she is alone
■ The telegram is shown
FLASH BACK
■ Her and her real husband is shown and she is pregnant.
■ Husband goes off to war and then a few months later the telegram is given to her,
showing that he has died.
■ Alice miscarriages due to grief and she is shown to hallucinate flowers growing in
the Kitchen
Short version of the story
(Alternative)
■ The story is shown as a montage with music
 TED Studios presents

IN CINEMAS SOON

Directedby Divine. U and Emily. F with Tia. W

 TED Studios presents
IN CINEMAS SOON

Directedby Divine. U and Emily. F with Tia. W

 JOHNSON JOHNSON
ALICE ALFRED

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WONDERLAND, U.S.A KANSAS CITY, U.S.A M

1927 1926
1937 1936

JOHNSON ALICE JOHNSON ALFRED