After learning that his father did not die when was 7 a prodigious investment banker sets off to find his dad, and does, at a silent monk monastery halfway across the world
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impliation???... indication ;)
intersting???... interesting. My bad.
As others have said -- there is no impliation of a struggle to achieve said goal... no struggle means there's no drama --no drama, no real interest...regardless of the genre. His goal currently = Find presumed dead Father. He does. The end. Yes, he finds him in an intersting world, but that's it. We need to know (well, at least I do...) 'objetively' WHY he has to find his Father, and what is the big deal (in the storyworld) in regards to the Father choosing a monastic lifestyle..? ... IOW - why would the MC care that his Father is now a monk... I mean, he's just found out he's alive, and he has managed to find him...
There is certainly potential for a great story with the set-up you've given, it's just that at the moment the logline only delivers on the set-up... a logline needs to give us an interesting (ironically flawed) character with a clearly defined goal, with an either stated or implied risk that equates to life or death, either physically or metaphysically. With this iteration of the logline I can't see what is at stake... And that's vital for care factor.
Best of luck with your future drafts.
There seems to be an implied thematic conflict between materialism and asceticism which, I suppose, is the hook, the idea that distinguishes this story from other father-son relationship stories. Which might be interesting/amusing. But, as noted, the logline doesn't make clear whether the plot is about the journey to meet his father -- or what happens after he does meet him. IOW: what is the central conflict that propels the story?