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A drama with magical realism · Feature screenplay
I NEARLY LOST YOU
A young mother crosses into the future and meets the daughter she gave up, fully grown, then returns with her to the past to face a fate only her daughter can see coming, one neither of them may be able to stop.
"There is a melancholy and specificity that really sets this story apart... The blueprint of this script feels like a can't-miss." Roadmap Writers coverage
The film's songs are not a plan. They are written, recorded, and owned outright. "Rachel" opens with the arpeggio that recurs through the film as its time-travel mechanism. "Awefishyule" is the festival anthem of Frock's band, Shift. "Someday" is the father-daughter duet at the story's climax.
RACHEL, 27
Lives in 1996. A traumatic childhood behind her, street sense keeping her upright, everything held together by routine. Music is her undoing.
ANN, 27
Lives in the present. Raised wealthy, educated precisely, planned completely. She quit her corporate law job to tend a dispensary counter. She is running out of reasons.
They meet at the same age, thirty years apart, and become friends before either knows the truth.
Silicon Valley, 1996. Rachel gives up her newborn daughter, then spends a year learning what the choice costs. When an impossible phone call reaches her through the walls of a grunge club called The Electric Banana, she follows a song thirty years forward and finds a woman her own age who needs saving as badly as she once did. Bringing her back to 1996 means facing the fate her daughter already knows is coming, and neither of them may be able to stop it.
For the audiences of Petite Maman, Aftersun, and My Old Ass: a mother-daughter story told through original music, set between the analog 1990s and the digital present.
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Script, deck, and business plan available on request.
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Tom Demar · Writer / Composer · Los Angeles
