
Synopsis/Details
After castigating her best friend NIA for getting pregnant, ALLY, daughter of Supreme Court JUSTICE THOMASON, discovers she herself is pregnant (by her father GREG’s late night assault) and, after a failed suicide attempt, she and Nia turn to the "Choice Train,” and hide in a mini-van headed out of state. Yards from the Georgia border, they are stopped and arrested. The vigilantes, one of whom is SAM, Ally's older brother, shoot and kill the driver and take the girls to a “Life Mall,” a government-sanctioned suburban mall converted to house captured pregnant women until they give birth. While Greg and the Justice work behind the scenes to free Ally, Sam breaks Ally and Nia out of the Life Mall.
During the escape, Nia is shot. Sam and Ally take her to a safe emergency room, but Life Mall goons soon recapture Ally, tasing Sam into a cardiac arrest. An angry Greg and Justice meet with CALEB, the Life Mall warden, to get Ally released. Caleb reveals that he’s the brother of HEATHER, the Justice’s law clerk. He plays a recording of the Justice coercing Heather to have an abortion. The Justice attacks Caleb and tries to take his phone. In the scuffle, other Life Mall guards burst in, guns are discharged, leaving the Justice and a guard seriously injured--and Greg dead. Ally escapes. Caleb is arrested. The Justice survives, but his reputation doesn’t. Nia miscarries in the hospital but recovers from her gunshot wound. And Sam accompanies Ally to a free-state clinic for her abortion.
All Accolades & Coverage
ISA Fast Track Fellowship, Fall 2023 - 2nd Rounder
Story & Logistics
Story Type:
Escape
Story Situation:
Abduction
Story Conclusion:
Bitter-sweet
Linear Structure:
Linear
Moral Affections:
Impenitence
Cast Size:
Several
Locations:
Several
Special Effects:
Blood
Characters
Lead Role Ages:
Female Teenager
Hero Type:
Ordinary
Villian Type:
Authority Figure
Advanced
Subgenre:
Action Suspense-Thriller
Action Elements:
Weaponry
Equality & Diversity:
Female Protagonist
Life Topics:
Pregnancy
Time Period:
Near future
Country:
United States of America (USA)
Relationship Topics:
Abusive relationship
Writer Style:
William Goldman