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ASTRAL SEARCH
By Qazi Fabia Hoq

GENRE: Action, Sci-fi
LOGLINE: A scientist does astral projection by a device called Astral Ring to search for her missing baby who she believes is being taken by the evil father.

SYNOPSIS:

HAZEL in her mid 30s is not a loving wife and is an irresponsible mother with great ambition in her life and is an inventor of The Astral Ring which enables the wearer to have Outer body Experience (OBE). While testing the product for the very first time she is attacked by her husband, ALEX in his early 40s, who is jealous of his wife’s success and dislikes Hazel for not being there for him and their baby. While being in OBE state Hazel discovers that she can move with an increasing speed, move things around and do many other things in the presence of light, she quickly saves herself and attacks Alex in self defence. Alex is badly injured and is in coma while Hazel is trapped in a prison cell. The only person who goes deeper to learn about what actually happened in the science lab is DETECTIVE KIPLING. One day, Hazel who is still wearing the Astral Ring goes to sleep and finds herself in Astral state. She goes to her home and finds her baby, TRACY is missing. She learns from the detective and the police that the nanny CINDY was present in the house while the baby was abducted. The nanny claims to see a black figure right outside the window. To know more Hazel visits Cindy’s house, tries to contact with her but fails. On the other hand Cindy starts believing that her house is haunted. Soon Cindy calls her brother, FINN in his early 40s to stay with her. Hazel who fails to do Astral projection with Cindy does Astral projection on Finn successfully. Soon Finn and Hazel looks for Tracy in the neighbourhood houses and orphanages but fails. On the other hand Detective Kipling brings a news to Hazel who has woken up from her sleep informing her that she suspects Hazel of killing her husband Alex intentionally. Detective Kipling shows her a paper that says the ownership of the Astral Ring company is in his name. Hazel claims that the paper is fake and soon sets out to find Alex who she believes is wandering around Astrally. Hazel learns that Alex is wearing one of the pair of Astral Ring and is doing all the mischievous deeds. The husband and the wife gets in to a fight, scares of a neighbourhood woman who doesn’t see them and makes the whole city and the nation alarmed. While all this happens one of the bossy inmate in prison, Debbie steals Hazel’s Astral Ring. To find the Astral Ring Hazel does meditation and successfully moves around astrally. However she doesn’t possess the power Astral Ring has. As Hazel moves around astrally without having the power of Astral Ring she visits the hospital but to her horror finds Cindy crying over Alex and telling him how much she has missed him. Discovering the nanny’s love for her husband and the fact that her husband is a cheater she makes a plan to get out of the prison cell and steal the astral ring from the prison inmate, Debbie. She successfully steals the ring from Debbie and sets out to find her daughter who she believes is being held hostage in Cindy’s house. In the end Hazel finally learns that Finn has kidnapped the baby on Alex’s order. With her Astral Ring power which equality matches that of her husband she needs to find the baby and kill Alex for good. The whole nation sees the battle between invisible forces as Hazel finally finds Alex to save her baby. Finally detective Kipling learns the entire truth and knows how to stop the destruction caused by the Astral Ring. Will the good motives of Hazel outweigh the bad motives of Alex’s or does Hazel needs to turn evil again to unleash the greater good?

ASTRAL SEARCH

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