the main character is named magdalena [can anyone tell me good nicknames/diminutives for this name] and she is a young adult, starting her life working at accounts payable. she has a friend from her college days whom she regularly converses and socialises with: natalya, who is very intellectual and very much "of the mind."
magdalena also has a brother named theophan who is spiritually minded (involved in the CHURCH as laity). he loves her and she is at odds with him for what he represents. she has had issues with her and she left her.
one night, natalya and magdalena decide to go to a dance club in the city. there magdalena meets vladimir, a mysterious guy who turns out to be a underworld master of sorts (trafficking, black market deals, etc.). he lives a very hedonistic and materialistic lifestyle: the pursuit of pleasure is a goal worth pursuing always in his mind. they begin a relationship where magdalena uses it to experience completeness and faux transcendence.
vladimir ends up dead during a business transaction and this destroys magdalena psychologically and emotionally. her way of dealing with it is to be more chemically dependent and more promiscious for the sake of "keeping the high." this sends her into a downward spiral, alienating her from natalya and nearly killing her... if it weren't for theophan helping her at the instance of natalya.
theophan helps magdalena recover physically and later in everything else. their conversations leads magdalena to reconcile herself with the CHURCH, theophan, natalya and more important uses that reconciliation to begin the long road of repentance for the sake of the kingdom.
that's basically the story. the screenplay and logistics will be worked on and has been worked on for some time.
any feedback or suggestions are appreciated and welcomed.
with love, fedya (derek power)
