Green Angels

On her training run along local streets, Ange arrives home to find her husband has died suddenly. Family income now slashed, her plans to build a property empire are ruined. Instead looms the threat of losing all. Wounded by her childhood years of an unhappy home and impoverished means Ange is even more driven to strive for wealth and status. Her drive is a compensation for her feelings of injustice. She feels justified in ousting stepson Jack from his bedroom to make way for Airbnb guests. Then sets about selling assets, and a valuable vintage motorcycle which rightfully belongs to Jack. Losing a loving father, Jack is exposed to an uncaring stepmother. Bereft of his father he immerses himself addictively in ‘Banished’ a community-simulation video game. He daydreams of a tech-based business start-up. His schoolfriend Ella, a bright technology student, picks up on this. But as they discover that funding a business start-up would be all too costly. Still grieving the loss of his father and suffering Ange’s scornfulness, Jack’s wellbeing suffers. Ange returning home one day, finds a noose in the garage but dismisses this as an ill-considered taunt despite the strife which ensues. Counselling by family friend Brooke helps Jack regain self-esteem. This emboldens him to trick Ange out of a large sum of money. Cash now in hand, Jack and Ella launch their business of delivering herbs direct from growers to restaurants. They buy a fleet of load-carrying drones. These are routed by GPS; transaction-generated by QR codes; and customer-operated by cellphone-based app. Green Angels, the business, becomes an instant success. But within weeks, disastrous cashflow brings everything to a halt. Jack incurs impossible debts and looming failure. He is rock-bottom devastated. But he has proved to himself and others that he has purpose and determination. This impresses Ange, who has regarded Jack a bit of a loser. Tricking her out of a large sum of money she recognises was a smart move. Impressed too, by Jack’s enterprise, she believes that his business could potentially fulfil her own pursuit of wealth. After months of erratic mortgage payments the bank serves on Ange a demand notice that she must repay all monies owing on her house. With little of her own equity in the house this brings her to despair. Jack becomes remorseful for tricking her out of money. Ange is overwhelmed emotionally. She for the first time finds empathy with Jack. Both are in dire straits; his start-up has failed, Ange will have no money to fulfil on her ambition or even get back into owning her own house. Her true essence revealed, Ange turns her focus towards helping Jack. Ange takes a close look at Green Angels business records and comes up with an astute way of helping Jack turn around his business. She succeeds until a further threat comes by way of legal challenge to the use of drones. This massively lessens the value of the business. But a potential investor has interests on an international scale. The sale of the business yields enough for Ange to realise her ambition and for Jack to get the bountiful life he was so close to losing. Jack gains a mother he never really had; Ange gains a son she can be proud of.