Film Synopsis

Title: Nowhere to be Found

Genre: Thriller

Audience: Aficionados- People who like to see something less mainstream and different to what would normally be shown at a cinema.

Logline: Set in the 1940's a woman goes missing and years later her child tries to discover what happened to her.

The sky is dull and birds are flying out of the dark woods as if they have been startled by something. A picture of an Army officer stands in the corner of the room on a table with many postcards and Christmas greeting cards nearby. A woman, MARIE sits at the table reading a letter she has received from her husband telling her that he will be returning home from war but in the meantime, she has given birth to a child that does not belong to him. She picks up her coat and hat and wraps the baby up tightly in a blanket. She takes the baby in her arms and walks into the woods behind her small house. It is silent apart from the dainty footsteps of Marie snapping twigs under her feet as she walks and the faint chopping of wood from a wood chopper in the distance. She reaches a small wooden shelter deep within the woods and places the bundled baby neatly inside it; lingers for a while, turns her back and walks away. As she walks back towards her house the chopping noise gradually becomes louder and louder as she gets closer and closer to the wood choppers location having taken a wrong turn. Their eyes meet and Marie gives him a shy smile and changes direction. A quick glance over her shoulder and she sees the wood chopper following her. Her little black shoes get smeared in mud as her pace quickens followed closely by the heavy boots of the wood chopper. Her pace quickens and so does his and a loud chop is heard. Then silence.


Where will my plot go?

After the opening two minute sequence I envision my story quickly changing to 25 years later with an old woman talking to a young woman, Grace about what happened to her mother, Marie. This then continues with the young woman trying to find out what actually happened to her mother by trawling through newspaper archives and revisting the now abandoned house which hasn't been touched since the day her mother went missing. After long hard days of questionning people and research she almost gives up but eventually finds the man who saw her last- the wood chopper who is now a fragile old man and discovers that he did actually kill her mother.