Story Writing Unit: "The Meeting" Synopsis & Pitch

Gabrielle Casey

PITCH:

“The Meeting” is a 10-minute romance/drama about two young male and female meeting for completely different reasons one meeting being for sex, the other for health. “The Meeting” is a story about finding romance in the most unlikely places.

SYNOPSIS:

“The Meeting” is based around two young “twenty-something’s” forming an unlikely romance. One of them being a young 21-year-old male called Joe Wilson down on his luck and unfortunate with love. The other being Emily Rodgers, also unfortunate in life because she has failing kidneys.

Joe - who works in his local newsagents, has an attraction to a regular customer called Rosey White. Being forced to ask the girl out on a date by his greedy, middle-aged, pushy boss Ed Moore, he nervously asks out the girl. As you can imagine it didn’t go as well as he would have hoped, and Ed sympathizes with Joe. Ed initiates a heart to heart and asks if Joe is still a virgin, to Ed's surprise Joe admits, he is indeed still a virgin.

Feeling bad for Joe, Ed pulls out a worn out business card with phone number written on it. Ed then explains that is in fact a phone number for a prostitute. Confused, Joe rejects it but Ed insists he take it even if he doesn't use it, so he does. Sitting in his bachelor flat later that night feeling lonely, he decides to call the number on the card.

Emily Rodgers - living in the same town, has also arranged a meeting, but hers is with her kidney donor she discovers through her friend in the NHS. Contacting the donor she arranges to meet up with him, after convincing him she does not agree that donating should be anonymous and would rather meet him and thank him face-to-face.

After calling the prostitute arranging a meeting place, feeling nervous Joe pulls up to the address, to where he sees a girl in the shadows. She knocks on his window and assumes that Joe is there for one thing. So the girl agrees to take Joe to her flat, and they become more comfortable with each other, finding out her name is Emily Rodgers, who wants to go to university to study medicine.

Arriving at her flat to her surprise Joe suggests they watch a film, then after the movie he proceeded to cook dinner for them. Confused, but enjoying her company Joe does not question as to why she has not initiated sex. 

After enjoying dinner and a lot of conversation, he offers to pay her Ł50. Emily confused and angry asks him what she thinks he was here for. After a while of explaining about his boss and the card, they are both in shock. Emily proceeds to tell him as to why she is there and opens up to someone for the first time since she found out she had failing kidneys; Joe listens and gives her a shoulder to cry on, and from then on it is a budding friendship.

“The Meeting” is a romance/drama based on an unlikely romance. It sends a story about love being found in unlikely places. Set in the rough areas of Chatham, “The Meeting” displays that accidents sometimes are a great thing.