Film Synopsis

Beatrice Norman
Project name; Fallen Star
Genre; Period Drama
Audience; Teen audience

Logline:1950s, 15yr old Stella falls pregnant and is shipped off to a convent in Dublin to have her baby in secret, but the baby is taken away from her, she must struggle to get her back. Main character; Stella - Teen pregnancy in early 1950 Ireland.


Act 1; Stella meets Charles at the cafe in which she works and gets invited to his birthday party. Stella begins dating him, and soon becomes sexually active with him. Not long after Charles tosses her to once side for another girl, she becomes suspicious that she is pregnant, confirmed by the doctor she now has to tell her mother and Charles. Charles takes it badly and flees to England with not a trace and her mum takes it even worse arranging for her to leave to go to a convent in Dublin. 


Major characters;
STELLA WOOD
CIARAN WOOD
MOTHER
FATHER
MAEVE
CHARLES

Act 2; Stella gets a nasty shock when she arrives at the convent and the harsh reality of her new life. Stella makes enemies and friends within the convent and becomes increasingly close with a girl names Marie who takes her to the pharmarcy to get something for the sores devloping on her head. Her old freind Leo comes to visit her and tells her that Charles has come back home, but is too scared and confused to contact her. The girls decide to set up a christmas play to hype up everyone's spirits not long after, she gives birth to a little girl and calls her Holly after Buddy Holly. Her aunite Nora comes to visit her and the baby, but a few days later the baby is taken away from her, and ready to be sent to another family. Marie and Stella, however, plotting and scheming make a plan to take holly back in the early morning and stella will run away with her, to her auntie Nora. The plan succeeds and stella begins her life of waitressing locally and being a new mum.  


Act 3;
The police tracks Stella down, so while staying in Leo's flat for a while she decides she has to flee to London. Her father is there to meet her at the station and takes cares of her. They both come back home to Ireland and her father tells the police Stella is keeping the baby and they'll adopt her themselves if they have to. The policeman lets the case go, but Stella still does not feel at home. She moves back to live with her auntie Nora with Holly and starts the local school. 
This film is an adaption of the novel Fallen Star by Joan O'Neill.