What do a stolen deed, a yellow pencil, an intelligent donkey, a covetous, abusive father, a resentful son, a greed agri-business farmer vs organic farm family, a cruel turkey shoot, a single mom, a sympathetic state trooper, skullduggery, a lost harvest, a fable of an ancient fish with a giant pearl in its gut, a believing sister, a skeptical brother, a lost boy, a storm in a cove  and a raging fire have in common?  Perfect Harvest.

SYNOPSIS:

‘Perfect Harvest’

a family entertainment

(aka 'The Pearl')

A tale of friendship, adventure, jeopardy and redemption

Place: the rolling acres of farmland near the sea inspired by locations on the Bruce Trail near Tobermory and the shores of lower Georgian Bay in Ontario Canada (but could be equally at home anywhere else you could imagine in a similar setting)

Time: contemporary timeless. Length: 90 pages

Characters:

The Murdock family at Breakie Bottom Farm: preteen siblings David and Sharon, Rembrandt (an intelligent donkey), Frieda (a pregnant mare), Grandad, Carol (mother).

The Short family at Friendly Farm Enterprises: Nathan Short, Tom (his 10 year old son), Jake (the hired hand), Zeni (the housekeeper)

Others: The Old Fisherman and Trooper Maddox

Nathan Short is a covetous agri-business farmer who sets his heart to steal his neighbor’s land, an organic farm owned by the Murdock family. His ruthless greed upsets the balance of everyone’s lives and wreaks havoc in his relationship with his son, Tom, whom he abuses. The Murdock children, Sharon and David, befriend Tom and the three children form an uneasy alliance to stop Nathan’s selfish plans to destroy their lives. With the aid of Rembrandt, Sharon’s pet, an intelligent donkey, and armed with a fable about a mystical pearl lodged in Coelacanth -an ancient fish that lives in a nearby cove seduces David who believes to catch it would save the family farm. The children take us on an adventure fraught with deceptive pitfalls. Sharon and David’s quest to save their parents’ farm and Tom from Nathan’s anger and cruelty -and Tom’s search to find the father he has lost- takes them all through an adventure of storm and fire, tempest and delusion. When all their efforts fail and Nathan’s actions bring him and Tom to a near calamitous end, one courageous death-defying act brings transformation and healing into everyone’s lives. ‘Perfect Harvest’ is the story of the redemption of a man, his son and his neighbors.

PERFECT HARVEST

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