SYNOPSIS:

Kenzie Monroe is a biker chick with a personality disorder. When she was 12 her mother committed suicide. Her biker father already in prison for attempted murder; she spent her teenage years in group homes and foster families where she quickly learned to trust no one. At 18 she is sexually reckless, a kamikaze on her motorcycle, and cuts herself just to feel alive. Her reality is all about her need to fill the emptiness when she is not in a relationship and the fear of abandonment when she is. Ford is the graduate-student-manager of the University Psychological Consultation Clinic where Kenzi is a student-receptionist. He is widely recognized as a brilliant scholar and an expert in posttraumatic stress disorder. An Iraq war vet, he struggles with his own trauma from a firefight outside of Baghdad; emotional wounds that he buries under a pile of denial and a barrel of bourbon. Ford and Kenzie argue at Dugan’s Saloon, a biker bar where Kenzie works, and despite being 12 years her senior, Ford meets his intellectual match in Kenzie. This accentuates the sexual tension that eventually leads to Ford’s bedroom. In the weeks that follow Kenzie uses Ford to meet her pathological needs. He uses her to deny his. Ally is Kenzie’s best friend and coworker at Dugan’s. She is in a violent relationship with a dope-smoking, good-for-nothing, live-in boyfriend. Ford rides along with the local police as a domestic violence specialist on a night when a routine call turns into a shootout; thrusting Ford into a debilitating flashback. Unable to quell the voices in his head, he abandons his work at the university and flies home to his wife. Kenzie is devastated, her worst fears realized, and she is pregnant. Weeks later when Ford returns to campus, Kenzie believes he has come back to her, until she runs into Ford’s wife, who is also pregnant. Confused and desperate, Kenzie dumps her motorcycle in a fiery crash on a snowy country road. In the Emergency Room Kenzie overhears a police call to Ally’s address. She knows the worst has happened. She pleads with Ford to help. The scene at Ally’s is intense. Ford flashes back to Iraq. Images of his Army buddies appear in the room, covering his back. When Ally’s boyfriend goes for a knife and Ford disarms him. Kenzie goes on with her life at the university, never telling Ford he is the father of her baby. She realizes that there is often a reasonable explanation why many people might be seen as crazy. She takes a mother’s oath that her reasons will never get in the way of her baby’s life.

REASONABLY CRAZY

Synopsis: Dana-Sue and Ford each have enough psychological symptoms between them to qualify as crazy. Yet the reasons for their problems are clear and neither feels that their symptoms get in the way of their life. Dana-Sue is biker tough, ivy-league smart, and plagued by fears of abandonment. When she was 12 her mother committed suicide. Her biker father was already in prison. She grew up in group homes and foster families and quickly learned to trust no one. Her reality is all about her need to fill the emptiness when she is not in a relationship and the fear of abandonment when she is. Her emotional instability leaves her impulsive, reckless, and self destructive. Ford is an Iraq War veteran and a brilliant student of psychology. During his time in Iraq Ford was involved in a firefight that left him with a deep emotional trauma that he buries under a pile of denial and a barrel of bourbon. He meets Dana-Sue at the University Psychological Consultation Clinic, where he is the graduate student manager and Dana- Sue is a receptionist. The relationship begins with a contentious debate about a client at the Clinic. Despite his good looks, intellect, and proven courage, it is his vulnerability that Dana-Sue finds irresistible. She is willing to overlook his arrogance, fondness for whiskey, and the fact that he has a wife. She knows their affair will be complicated and inevitably tragic. What she fails to realize is how it will change her life forever.