A Savage Art
Logline
What might drive a good person to kill? Kate Savage, a fiercely independent artist who creates dark fairy tales in textiles, is seduced into an erotically charged and dangerous world where she must risk her freedom and even her life, to protect those she loves.
Genre
Suspense/Thriller,Crime
Short Summary
Textile artist Kate Savage is devastated by her assistant’s suicide but can’t convince the authorities the sadistic doctor John Reed is responsible. As Kate struggles to expose him, she is seduced into an erotically charged and dangerous world. When Reed is killed. Kate’s lover Peter is arrested.
As Kate tries to clear Peter, she uncovers fraud, blackmail and murder linking Reed, club owner Frankie Quinn and banker David Farrer. Quinn ambushes Kate at her studio, but she kills him in cold blood, convincing the police it was self-defence. Kate has made an enemy of powerful sociopath Farrar.
Setting
Brighton UK, particularly the artistic and BDSM subcultures. London. Beachy Head and Eastbourne.
Based on a True Story
No
Plot - Premise
Overcoming Monster/Villain
Plot - Other Elements
Twist
Mature Audience Themes
Extreme Violence,Sexual Abuse,Nudity, Language/Profanity
Main Character Details
Name: Kate Savage
Age: 40
Gender: Female
Role: Protagonist
Key Traits: Badass,Complex,Decisive,Strong Moral Code,Unapologetic,Sexy,Educated,Honorable,Heroic,Engaging,Skillful
Additional Character Details
Name: Peter Ford
Age: late 40s
Gender: Male
Role: Sidekick
Key Traits: Masculine,Skillful,Charming,Complex,Confident,Strong Moral Code,Educated,Flexible
Additional Character Details
Name: Rowena Grey
Age: 21
Gender: Female
Role: emotional
Key Traits: Charming,Complex,Empathetic,Insecure,Selfless,Naive
Additional Character Details
Name: Dr John Reed
Age: 50s
Gender: Male
Role: antagonist
Key Traits: Masculine,Villainous,Narcisstic,Power Hungry,Seductive,Unapologetic,Educated,Greedy,Criminal,Charming,Complex,Confident
Development Pitch
Kate Savage gives up a high-flying career to fulfil her dream of being a textile artist. After a lifetime as a loner, she takes on her friend Peter's protegee, Rowena, as her assistant. Rowena's life mirrors Kate’s. She gave up a child for adoption when she dropped out of art college – Rowena is adopted and searching for her birth parents. Kate grows closer to Peter, and starts to fall for him. Then she finds Rowena, dead by her own hand, and Kate feels responsible The police write off the torture revealed in the post-mortem as consensual, ignoring Kate's doubts about Dr John Reed, Rowena's lover. Kate investigates. She enters Reed's world - a seductive, erotic subculture, where she finds links between Reed, club owner Frankie Quinn and sociopathic banker, David Farrer, together with evidence of fraud and the murder of Rowena's birth mother. Peter is arrested for Reed's murder. He and Kate suspect each other, and he pulls back, breaking her heart. Realising Quinn is the killer, going against everything she believes, Kate sets a trap, killing him in cold blood. The police accept she acted in self-defence. Peter knows better, but understands, and they reconcile. Kate and Peter confront Farrar. She knows that he was Rowena's father and hired Quinn to intimidate his child, fearing blackmail, but Farrar has proof she tortured Reed. It’s stalemate. Kate is transformed by her journey into a world as dark and seductive as her own fairytale textiles, returning with renewed hope