Ruby's Opal

Ruby won the lottery and then managed to lose everything to a scoundrel scammer who broke her heart and stole her money. Humiliated and broke, she heads to the outback opal fields of Australia to make her fortune again. But she has hardened up and is done with men. She is on a mission to find the rare pineapple opal and buy an Inn on the coast somewhere quiet. While opal mining, she becomes best friends with Stanley. He’s a well-meaning, dope-dealing chopper pilot who is cruising through life waiting for something to happen. And something does. He meets Ruby. Then the local crime boss runs him out of town for stealing his customers. Stanley must fly back to Sydney to escape. However, on arrival, his chopper gets repossessed, and Stanley ends up as a barman in a small bowling club. Back in the opal fields, Ruby upsets a couple of old-school opal miners. She has been digging into their claim. Maps are hard to read thirty meters underground. She has her rare pineapple opal, and they are very angry. She must take off in a hurry. She heads for Sydney and her best friend, Stanley. He’ll put her up for a little while. Stanley and Ruby become roommates, but Ruby has brought the crime boss and the two opal miners she ripped off with her. Now Ruby and Stanley need some fast cash to get the chopper back and somehow lose the bad guys who are chasing them. The pair duck and weave until they can set up a sting that gets the bad guys all arrested by the cops. Back at square one, despite all their resistance, the walls finally come down, and they hit the jackpot. They fall in love. Also, Ruby has been hiding the pineapple opal she dug up in the next-door mine for a rainy day. It’s a happily-ever-after story about two best friends, who overcome the odds, to make their dreams come true and fall in love. It is “Pineapple Express” meets “When Harry Met Sally” - A low-budget romantic comedy adventure.