Forever My Teacher
Logline
Behind the Forever My Teacher??’s unlikely romance, is the fear that gnaws at most of us. The years will go on with or without us. Veronica, the new wave of Latina, graduates high school, cute, sexy, and migrates to pre-med at Berkeley, but ends up waiting years for something better to happen.
Genre
Funny,Romance,Drama
Short Summary
Twenty years after dropping out of medical school, Veronica, now an elementary school teacher and mother, attends a seminar where she bumps into her high school English teacher, someone she detests because he busted her for being in a compromising situation.
Caught up in a secret, but workable, often funny, romantic relationship with her much older teacher, Veronica nevertheless tries to move on. She lies to co-workers, family, and friends to conceal him, but in the end is left with only desolate options and reprisals from her own children.
Setting
East Los Angeles, Berkeley, middle-class neighborhood, Grand Canyon, Costa Rica, Big Bear mountain resort.
Based on a True Story
Yes
Plot - Premise
Other
Plot - Other Elements
Philosophical Questions,Other
Mature Audience Themes
Language/Profanity,Nudity,Substance Abuse
Main Character Details
Name: Veronica
Age: 46
Gender: Female
Role: Protagonist
Key Traits: Engaging,Leader,Blunt,Outspoken,Funny,Sarcastic,Educated
Additional Character Details
Name: Mr. Kaplan
Age: 65
Gender: Male
Role: Mentor
Key Traits: Confident,Decisive,Engaging,Educated,Honorable,Leader,Modest,Blunt,Selfless,Skillful,Funny,Visionary,Romantic,Strong Moral Code
Additional Character Details
Name: Sandra
Age: 46
Gender: Female
Role: skeptic
Key Traits: Badass,Aggressive,Confident,Educated,Leader,Blunt,Outspoken,Funny,Sarcastic,Sophisticated,Manipulative,Decisive
Additional Character Details
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Development Pitch
Looking for something zombie-less, lacking super-heroes, without pretentious displays of wealth, or devoid of moody detectives, murder scenes, and serial killers? Looking for something for a mature audience searching for his/her realistic context? Looking for something about average people who drive traffic daily, but caught up in dramas that must be concealed? Forever My Teacher?? hooks with a five minute graphic humiliating scene resulting in the net effect of not being able to discern when something better comes along. Forty short chapters follow a woman through her last tumultuous year in high school, then college, then dropping out, falling back on a teaching job that becomes a career, marriage, kids, divorce, an unplanned fling with an older man who attends to her with midnight banter, lying to everyone to conceal her dalliance, her children discovering the truth, dependence on wine, and constant apprehension of where all of this will end up. And a courtroom appearance with God as the plaintiff. Emotional, funny, romantic locales, scenes with teenagers, mostly bantering dialogue, soccer fields, sailing, mature partying, weight concerns, realistic.