A child sex slave escapes to her native America, entering politics to become the first female President of the United States.

You know? I had no idea Breaking Bad?, Mad Men?, House of Cards?, or even Game of Thrones? were each a miniseries. Shows how much I need to watch TV more! I wouldn?t have enough for 4+ seasons, but I could definitely fill 1. Hmmm?

Series, yes, but I don't know if mini-series' have ever taken off. They're usually straight to TV and forgotten pretty soon after - but I guess I can't rule it out (given the length and complexity)...

It's more about character growth rather then just "getting over it". Landing back in the US, the culture is a lot more noisy & bombastic than Russia, so she freaks out. Naturally, she tries to reach out to her family (who kept looking after she was taken), but her mother & grandmother have since died, and her father was never listed on her birth certificate.

She marries a baseball player to anchor herself, but finds it hard to stand in his shadow and be the "wife".
They separate (which, because of his fame, the relationship is publicly scrutinised), so she builds a thick skin and sets out to find her own spotlight. She enters politics, but her trafficking past then comes up in the House campaign. She still wins, and goes on to become a Senator, which gives her a "Warrior Princess" kind of label.

By now she's got the public presence (and support) to run for President, and as things start to smooth out, she rekindles her love with the base-baller. She has an ulterior motive though, because there hasn't been a "single" or "de facto" sitting President in the last 100 years. She needs him to win, but they do grow close and fall in love again. As they're rebuilding their marriage, they spend a few nights together, thereby conceiving a child. It's called a geriatric pregnancy (where a woman gets pregnant just before the onset of menopause), and it's dubbed "bigger than Watergate". No one knows about it until she's actually elected.

OK, maybe a series is better suited ;) I just don't know how I'd go writing episodically... I imagined cutting the first film at the inauguration scene, and then the second film would deal with her being pregnant, and what that means to her Presidency & term in office.

>>>they?re less successful than feature films

IMHO, we are in a golden age for series drama. Look at the commercial and artistic success of "Breaking Bad", "Mad Men", "House of Cards" -- to name but three. Given the rich potential for conflict and complexity in your premise, is there really enough time to do justice to the character and themes you want to explore in a feature film? (Or even two. Which is not the way Hollyweird thinks in producing/marketing feature films. They think of multiple feature films only in terms of franchises.)

>>No PTSD issues ? she sorts it out through the film.

If she just "sorts it all out" what is there about her character for the audience to worry about, to sympathize with? What is her character flaw? What is there about her that creates suspense, makes the audience worry whether she's got the right stuff to succeed. What vulnerability is there for the audience to identify with?