Rainier

Synopsis: A teen girl escapes her kidnapper by leaping out his truck on a mountain road in midwinter. She knows her future only ends in death, so she leaps. It is a leap of the desperate. She wakes in a mountain cabin, alone with a broken leg, food and a note. A note that says ‘cook food, close door, wolves.' She has a day alone to contemplate; to fear survival, to remember hard times, to wonder about a future. Then cometh The Man; moving too fast, talking to wolves, but he heals her legs quickly and treats her with kindness and respect. She is grateful yet wary, suspicious yet welcoming the only time in her life without abuse. She is too guarded to even share her name, so they call each other The Man and The Girl. Suspicions. For a man alone in a mountain the cabin is filled with futuristic high tech stuff. Why? The Man breaks his own rules to avenge her pain when she finally identifies her attacker. No one has ever been her champion; she feels she has found a Dad, a make shift family on a mountain. In a safe haven high above the hard times below, he teaches her about the stars. But the outside intrudes on the peace on the mountain. Professionals; the type of men who fix problems come looking for the missing illegal cargo the driver carried in the truck. They suffer hard consequences. The Man has a secret as big as the galaxy. He is not from Earth. His people have been spending brief periods among Native Americans for 6,000 years. State agents arrive to investigate the curious case of three professionals seriously injured in this outwardly serene place. The Man has allies though; a Yakama brother and sister who have always known his real identity. The pair play a cat a mouse game of delay and mislead with the law to protect The Man until his ship arrives to take him home. The Girl learns that new Dad is Starman; confusion. He is an alien in The Man’s body; double confusion. New Dad offers her a life and family on another planet; triple confusion. Does family have to look like you to love you? She wants a different future, so she leaps; the leap of hope, the leap to a new life, a new very distant life.