A single career woman takes in her distant relative, a child Holocaust survivor, in post- war Sydney. As each others’ only family left alive, they must form a new life together but secrets and long-buried betrayals threaten to finish the work the Nazis started.

by Octavia Penpusher · 291 pts 772 views

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3 reviews

dpg Singularity · 112,231 pts ★ Accepted

The?seems to be a story about??ghosts from the past haunting the present and?threatening ?the future.? It implies to me a lot of flashbacks? - how else to bring the ghosts from the past into the present?

The first hurdle this concept has to clear in my mind?is the one created by the? myriad -- dare I say glut -- of?Holocaust stories already made into movies.?? Most of which are based on real?people, real events.? Is this one based on real events, real people?? ?Truth is stranger than fiction and some Holocaust stories would never been made it no?as movies if they?weren't based on actual historical events.? Like "Schindler's List" -- you can't make up a fictional ?story like that up.? And if you could, who would believe it, want to make it into a movie?

So is it based on true events, real characters?? And what does this story have to say about the consequences of the Holocaust that hasn't already been said in all the other Holocaust based films?? I just don't see a unique story hook, here, a detail or twist that grabs my interest that suggests a new, a fresh, a?unique take on the Holocaust. (Others' mileage may vary.)

PamelaOZ Penpusher · 266 pts

Yes? there are rather a lot of Holocaust stories/films around.? However, this seems to me to be a post-Holocaust story, that would be more about PTSD, and adjustment to the world of Sydney as well as rebuilding a family.? Is it the? current psychological stress that threatens the new family attachments,? past betrayals or interaction of both?

Neer Shelter Singularity · 55,464 pts

I don't agree with DPG on the merits of this as a holocaust story, yes there have been many films and books written about the subject but this doesn't seam to be one.

The logline specifically states post WW2 Sydney, the main characters are an Australian woman and her young relative a holocaust survivor. The story seams to deal with post traumatic stress and the psychology of a grieving person as appose to the survival of the holocaust. Further more wile there may be an indication that the family in question is Jewish, there was no mention of it which means they could be black, gypsies or related to homosexuals all victims of the holocaust.

I think the big problems with this logline are the lack of clearly defined major plot elements. What must she do after the child is given to her? What will be the main action she takes in the film?
Secondly, to what end or in other words what is her goal?