Uprooted.

Today I found a possible new title for my screenplay.

UPROOTED.

By chance (?), in renaming Anabel Hana, I've been reminded of one of my guardians Hannah Margaret Stewart. An unsuccessful missionary turned atheist doctor, this clever little woman felt life had been bitterly unfair to her.

Hana in the film needs a friend, good or bad, and in remembering Hannah Margaret, I've found a motive for Hana's most evil of act's: her collusion in the abduction of her granddaughter Samira.

Jealously.

This is what Hannah Margaret gave me in large dollops every day of my childhood. Non acceptance. Long story! Hannah Margaret was not evil. She was damaged beyond repair. Hana,it will transpire, is not damaged beyond repair.

Hana's now seriously estranged daughter Shirfa will have preferred, in her childhood, the warm love of housekeeper Hildegarde. Must rename Hildegarde. This large, kind, loving, religious Bolivian servant unconditionally adored the young artistic Shifra.
Hana has been incapable of showing any love to her daughter due to her holocaust experiences as a child. She is emotionally paralyzed. The film starts in the 1980's. Hana is in her late 60's. Hana expresses her feelings in her art, graphically.

Pitch:

Through her graphic sketchbooks and paintings elderly wealthy lonely widowed French Holocaust survivor artist Hana battles with inner demons in a last attempt to find atonement for her part in the abduction of her granddaughter eighteen years previously. After the death of her beloved companion Hildegarde,though an unlikely chance meeting with a Bolivian shaman, Hana finds her gifted singer granddaughter Samira in the slums of Paris and embarks on an intrepid healing journey to Bolivia (with Samira) to find her daughter Shifra whom they discover teaching circus skills, mural painting, and dance to slum kids in La Paz.

Painting by Freidl Dicker-Brandeis: Gypsy and child.

This image sums up for me Hana's inner turmoil.

The new beauitful title for this blog ( the hands) image, I found on the Internet. Apologies to the creator of this photo for not noting their name at the time. Now impossible to trace !