Year of Horse

Year of Horse is a drama, horror script along the lines of “ A Boy and His Dog” and “Candyman”, rooted in Chinese astrology. Lara Torres has had a tough life. When her abusive Mother becomes a drug addict/ alcoholic. Lara's father leaves them when she is five years old. Lara's mother ends up homeless on the streets of Hollywood, begging for food. Raven is taken away and put into the foster care system, where she ends up running away. In 2026, Haipa, a legendary fire horse in Chinese Astrology, comes to earth, killing only the happy people. Prostitutes, drug addicts, the mentally ill, and abused people are spared. Haipa needs the happiness of others to survive another twelve years. About to end her own life, Lara is interrupted when she rescues a hurt, large dog with the name tag “Horse”. They spend their days scavenging for food and hiding from their abusive real street mom. She has dreams of leaving the city and going to Kenai, Alaska. After discovering her mother savagely murdered Rooster, Lara's neighbor and guardian, she is pushed to the edge. In an attempt to protect Horse from her mother, she shoots her with a bow and arrow, and she flies off the top of the Fontenoy rooftop garden in Hollywood. At that moment Horse bursts into a million dragonflies and disappears. Horse was never real. Only Lara could see him. He saved her when she rescued him. Lara needed to learn to believe in herself.  Mourning the loss of Horse, she sees paw prints on the street. She has hope that they are Horse’s paw prints. She races down the street to find a handsome boy named Billy who is her age, with a large dog. Lara decides the dog's name is Dragon. Maybe the dog is really Horse reincarnated?