Maya's Window

We open in 2004 on the Oregon coast. LLOYD COOPER (50, sickly, hard working type) suffers from a dreadful cough as he arrives at an emergency room. Lloyd is actually not there for his illness, but rather to see his wife, who died moments earlier on the operating table. Heavy with grief, the ailing Lloyd is handed a baby girl, whom his wife gave birth to before she died. As Lloyd holds the baby, his body is seized by an energy surge that cripples the hospital’s power. Lloyd realizes MAYA COOPER has truly amazing powers. In the present, REESE DILLON (17, All-American with an edge) is a talented senior at Ventura, California’s Highview Prep with no dreams for her future due to her parents’ failed marriage and her mom’s substance abuse issues. Reese is the natural leader of a small group of friends, which includes the upbeat but insecure TESSA CRUZ and the bullied CORY GANN, who loves two things: his pet Maltese and money. They are all good kids, but sad in their own ways. On Halloween night, Reese meets the grown up MAYA COOPER (almost 17, walks with a cane), who recently moved in next door. Reese and Maya form a psychic bond when Maya transfers energy giving Reese newfound hope and clarity, the very things she’s been lacking. Reese learns that Lloyd is Maya’s stepfather and they’ve been eluding a group called Destroyers who are pursuing Maya for her powers, which include telekinesis and the ability to cure disease. As their bond grows, Maya tells Reese she is from a race of ancient intelligent life living deep in the ocean off the Oregon coast. Maya’s people can take on human form for a short time before returning to their “true form” in the ocean. As such, their human body dies, but they are reborn in the water. Maya herself has grown more disabled over the years, because each time she helps someone her strength is damaged further. Maya tells Reese that, before she returns to the ocean to be with her mother, she has important information to give Reese. When Lloyd suffers a stroke, Maya’s hopes of returning to her ocean home are put in jeopardy. Reese, Tessa, and Cory, who have all been helped by Maya in different ways, discover she not only cured Lloyd of terminal lung cancer when she was born, but she’s also been curing children of terminal illness for years. Then to Reese’s dismay, she realizes the Destroyers, led by WORKMAN (47, slippery type, serpentine eyes), already know Maya is in Ventura. Maya downloads data to Reese that will lead her to an undiscovered place deep in the ocean -- Maya’s home -- where the cure for disease awaits. Maya tells the doubtful Reese that her destiny is to “change the world.” She warns, however, that if the Destroyers find out Reese has the information in her head, they could try to extract it from her and jeopardize the plan Maya has set in motion. Reese and her friends make a plan to keep Maya away from the Destroyers until Lloyd recovers. Maya, the Dorothy of their “The Wizard of Oz”-like group, has gifted Reese with something she never had before – a sense of purpose. But danger lurks as the Destroyers, identifiable by their ice green eyes, close in.