Star Children

MILLIE (17), one of a group of Special Needs kids on a week’s holiday to the Swanage coast, looks forward to a romantic time with her boy-friend BARRY (17). Barry however is preoccupied, enjoying the holiday with his friends within the group. Millie bumps into the alien OTOT (equivalent to 13), part of a group of Alien youth visiting Earth on their own field trip. Otot decides Millie is unique too, and invites Millie onto his spaceship, with the intention of taking her back to his planet. Thankfully Otot and his group of Alien youth are supervised by an adult Alien, the sagacious Nanuh the Elder, who insists Otot returns Millie. Otot is forbidden any more contact with Millie, lest their mission - to determine if long-term contact with Earthlings would benefit the intergalactic community - is jeopardised. The Earth’s leaders demonstrate to the Aliens they certainly want as much new technology as possible, even if it means going to war. Fortunately for the world, Millie is as smart as she is stubborn. She tracks down Otot, and goes on one last wild ride on Otot’s spaceship. Millie and Otot persuade the adult Aliens, even if the world’s governments are not to be trusted, that does not mean the Aliens should not befriend the Earth’s humans. Concept: Two disaffected kids from opposite sides of the stars prove to their sceptical adults, different civilisations can co-exist. Many of us comic book, sci-fi fans day-dream of meeting Aliens, so long as they were friendly! Yet wouldn’t it be surprising if the Alien was somehow as neurotic, anxious, and ‘alienated’ within their own community as we can sometimes feel in ours? That’s Otot.