While caring for a 10-year-old orphan, an impoverished pessimist tries to keep a homeless shelter he unlawfully occupies from being demolished so the residents won't be evicted.
Rick, pessimistic, impoverished and desperate, must discover a way to keep the homeless shelter he runs from being demolished. When a 10-year-old orphan named Sky comes into his care, his perspective on what life can truly be starts to change.
The diamond in the rough of this is the relationship between Rick, Zoe, and Sky. Everything else is kind of useless. A dramatic retelling of the inciting incident and subplots could and should be done. Rebuild the world in which they live and around their relationships. Good luck in your future drafts.
Under British-ruled Ireland, Irish Catholic servant Reanna O’Neil is forced to flee for her life when, in self-defense, she kills her attacker, a British noble. His son-in-law, hot on her heels and out for blood, will stop at nothing to “Make the Irish slattern pay!”.
When four teens from wildly different worlds are sentenced to a juvenile program, their stories of survival, privilege, pain, and rebellion begin to collide. Together, they discover that healing is louder than silence—and sometimes, the system is the villain hiding in plain sight.
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