100 pages
Romance / Drama
Comps: Silver Linings Playbook, Lost in Translation, Mysterious Skin
Synopsis: When Maddie was sixteen, her mother jumped out of a car being driven by her father on the freeway. The next morning, Maddie found a bloodied and bruised Patrice asleep in bed and no trace of her dad.
Her father’s affair was no longer a secret.
Left alone in a small ranch home with her emotionally distraught mother, she finds refuge at her boyfriend Tim’s big white house. A sprawling green lawn dotted with white wooden lawn chairs, five siblings, and a big golden retriever gave Maddie a sense of normalcy to retreat to.
When she heads to college and Tim stays home to take over his father’s business, Maddie finds herself forced to sit in silence with loud unresolved trauma for the first time.
Driven by an unrelenting existential uncertainty, she decides to drop out of college in the middle of her first year and apply for a job as a flight attendant to explore the world. On her first flight, she crosses paths with a smart, hilarious, and lovable pilot who renews her sense of hope and invites her to understand the limitless nature of our reality.
Her father’s affair was no longer a secret.
Left alone in a small ranch home with her emotionally distraught mother, she finds refuge at her boyfriend Tim’s big white house. A sprawling green lawn dotted with white wooden lawn chairs, five siblings, and a big golden retriever gave Maddie a sense of normalcy to retreat to.
When she heads to college and Tim stays home to take over his father’s business, Maddie finds herself forced to sit in silence with loud unresolved trauma for the first time.
Driven by an unrelenting existential uncertainty, she decides to drop out of college in the middle of her first year and apply for a job as a flight attendant to explore the world. On her first flight, she crosses paths with a smart, hilarious, and lovable pilot who renews her sense of hope and invites her to understand the limitless nature of our reality.
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