When two best friends stumble onto a time travel experiment from the future, an irresistible temptation puts their very own existence in jeopardy. A paradox in time is the least of their worries.
Type:
Feature
Status:
For sale
Page Count:
108pp
Genre:
Adventure, Drama, Family
Budget:
Independent
Age Rating:
13+
Synopsis/Details
Nestled between what is most unscrupulous and righteous is Mattias Torres, 14, who’s been dealt the ultimate temptation of his early, innocent life. A discovery from another time and place so unique that if in the wrong hands could jeopardize everything. Even his own existence. Mattias, along with his friend Chris, stumble across a mysterious cherry tree that is growing inside an old, hollow oak tree on his grandparents pomegranate orchard. After eating the cherries, time around them decelerate to a stop. The finding excites them to no end as they secretly use the cherries to their advantage. Through trial and error they come up with just the right dose to control the speed and duration. What starts out as innocent fun, quickly turns to both heartache and desperation as things go horribly wrong. Every attempt to rectify it fails until a gift from an unlikely source sheds light on the whole mystery. From the out-of-control spiral, Matias struggles to get the upper hand, but is it too late? And to what cost?

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Submitted: 2025-Aug-15
Last Updated: 2025-Aug-15
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The Writer: Krister C Johnson

I grew up near the Arctic Circle in northern Sweden, far from Hollywood but right in the heart of storytelling. My earliest memories of falling in love with cinema come from a small-town movie theater in Skelleftehamn, where my grandfather worked. Every week, a new film lit up the screen—everything from Jaws and Rocky to Ingmar Bergman’s classics. As a teenager, I began writing in the quiet basement of my mother’s house, drawing inspiration from both the brilliant and the not-so-brilliant films I watched. Alongside that, a patchwork of odd jobs—working as a cabin boy on a Baltic Sea icebreaker, wrangling toddlers at a daycare—gave me rich, sometimes absurd, life experiences that continue to… Go to bio
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