When a highly-successful psychologist saves a man on the street from suicide, she decides she isn't helping enough people who really need it, and starts a "mobile therapist" ride company, counseling strangers from pick-up to destination; until one-day she accepts a fare across country from a man with real demons to confront.

Mobile Therapist

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dpg Singularity · 112,231 pts

>>>this man who has serious issues to work through

Like what? The logline is vague. It lacks a specific problem and a specific objective goal.

And what's at stake? That is, what does her client stand to lose if he fails to respond to her therapy?

The teenager in "Ordinary People" (1980) has a very specific "serious issue": the impulse to commit suicide because of guilt and anger over the death of his brother in a boating accident. The stakes are as high as they get: his life. He's already tried to commit suicide once, he may try again.

Ian Slater Penpusher · 1 pts

Thanks Camilla. I agree. That was actually the part that confused people I read it to. What off time?, and why would she choose to spend it like that? - was the reaction.

Ian Slater Penpusher · 1 pts

Figuratively. It's a more conventional psychodrama. What I was attempting to do was draw a contrast between her everyday clients and this man who has serious issues to work through. I imagine it's part road movie, in that she must take him to some physical destination erstwhile undergoing a spiritual process to where he can find closure/freedom and she can feel like she's done someone actual good.