A young British academic visiting America and a besotted underage runaway evade exposure by passing themselves off as uncle and niece while travelling the country together:think Pygmalion/Lolita

Thanks, Craig.

I can see this. If you are familiar with Lolita, James Mason a mature english man is besotted by a 15 year old girl that uses sex (and the promise of sex) to toy with him. She is manipulative and he shows himself to be foolish from under his proper english exterior. The modern version came across creepy.

While Pygmalion has Rex Harrison (My fair Lady, same story) teacher her that she can be more than her environment has taught her to be. He wants to teach her a trick (to speak correctly) but she gets far more out of it.

I can see combining these two aspects makes for an exchange of power between the two characters in a dare I say it "Win Win" situation. They can both grow through this relationship and perhaps this makes them codependent.

Great concept. Not sure how to get all that across without referencing previous works for context.

Hi Anon. Re: think Pygmalion/Lolita. I think that anything that saves words while evoking some kind of recognition in the reader - and an idea of the film's genre - can be useful when done well. I'm not saying that I've necessarily done it well. Still working on my logline, so may leave it out. Wouldn't want to appear amateurish - heaven forbid! LOL. Thanks for your input.