What's Your Poison
Logline
About a 60 yr old woman in a world totally different than she has ever known before. Her bosses are ex felons and ex drug users and the cliental are dirty, homeless and swear a lot. It is when a person on meth who tries to kill that changes her thought process on this new and different situation.
Genre
Other
Short Summary
Sylvia became a paramedic due to the OKC bombing, but nothing she learned in Medic school or even working on an ambulance got her ready for this job. She is totally out of her safe zone and trying to help people that she can't connect with. Her peers are ex drug users themselves.
Her boss sat and watched the video tape of the meth person that tried to kill Sylvia. "I would have gone back to prison if I would have saw that. I would have killed him before I let him hurt you."
Setting
Phoenix, AZ
Based on a True Story
Yes
Plot - Premise
Other
Plot - Other Elements
Meaningful Message
Mature Audience Themes
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Main Character Details
Name: Sylvia
Age: 60
Gender: Female
Role: Protagonist
Key Traits: Empathetic,Gracious,Religious,Educated
Additional Character Details
Name: Bob
Age: late 30's or early 40's
Gender: Male
Role: Mentor
Key Traits: Charming,Confident,Criminal,Leader,Blunt
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Development Pitch
This is a story of drugs and alcohol abuse from the eyes of a sixty-year old woman. She worked on an ambulalnce for over twenty years and yet with all that training nothing prepared her for her new job. Sylvia stumbled into a different world working with recovering drug addicts, felons and transgenders. Her world is turned upside down, working with patients on drugs and alcohol who sometimes turn on her as she tries to help them. She sees first hand patient trapped in their own psychosis. But it is when she finds herself in a situation as a meth addicted patient tries to kill her that changes her thought process on thsi new situation.