In the borders of Myanmar, a janitor finds smuggled priceless golden antiquities. Her daughter and a male friend must find her in Turkey before she is killed by the international art thieves and save the relics.

*SCREENPLAY AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST

SYNOPSIS:

Treatment:

In Northern Myanmar, very near the Thai border, in a region plagued by rival tribal groups and drug smuggling in the midst of endless civil wars, antiquities smugglers dig through the ruins near an ancient temple. They find the legendary 26 gold Buddhas that people have searched for during that last 5 centuries, and escape with the priceless artifacts before the police can catch them. The police find the holes in the ground and barely miss capturing the thieves.

The police tear apart the village of Mai Maw, the closest to the ruins, in a search for the stolen artifacts, but find nothing.

In the nearby Kachin Mission School, an overworked female janitor enters the damaged part of the building closed off due to the violence of the civil wars. Her boss, the principal, threatens her with termination because she hasn’t cleaned well-she protests, and asks for the missing soap and cleaning supplies. He refuses.

Terrified of being fired, she enters the forbidden section in a search for soap, and finds a box so marked. She opens it, and a small golden arm of a Buddha drops out. She grabs it and hides it in her clothes, then closes the box and grabs some soap from the other boxes. She returns to clean the hallway outside the principal’s office, but is in a panic due to her dangerous discovery. She finishes and runs out of the school.

Meanwhile, in modern Yangon, the financial and political capital of Myanmar, her young daughter trades currencies for major international banks with headquarters in Turkey. After a successful trade, she goes to her office shrine, and hugs the picture of her mother, and dreams of earlier days when she visited her after she became a financial success.

In the dream, she caresses their Burmese cat, and gives her mother money to help their poor extended family. The mother asks if the daughter still has the dreams of a heroic man that have hypnotized her since she was young. The daughter responds that the hero has not yet appeared, and the mother implores her to watch for him.

Back in the village, her mother frantically packs her few belongings and leaves a clue for her daughter as to her new whereabouts. She runs out of her house in fear for her life, and makes a long journey that winds up in Turkey.

The principal and his gang of international art thieves realize that the mother has discovered the 26 Buddhas in the ruined section of the school, and go on a search for her. They go into her house and try to find a possibility about where she gone in an effort to escape them.

Meanwhile, in an internet café in Istanbul, Turkey, the mother tries helplessly to work a computer in order to contact her daughter. A Burmese man hears her whispered Burmese words, goes to help her, learns of her story, and compassionately offers her a house keeping job at his home to help her survive.

He helps her send her daughter a coded message on the internet that uses the cat as the clue, and the daughter gets the email, and leaves to go to the village. The smugglers enter her finance office, and also find the clue, and also leave to go to the mother’s home in the village.

In the village, the daughter discovers the clue to her mother’s whereabouts, and leaves for the fabled spice market at the Grand Bazaar, in Istanbul, Turkey. The smugglers also figure out the clue and follow the path to Turkey to kill the mother.

The daughter, disguised, shows a picture of her mother to all the merchants. One merchant recognizes the mother and the daughter takes up a position to watch, unseen, all of the customers that pass by.

The principal, along with two Turkish mafia types dressed as police, find the merchant who recognized the mother’s photo, wait in vain for the mother to appear, but they are followed by the disguised daughter.

She takes pictures of the entire group, and the license plates of the vehicles, and calls her contacts in the financial industry to get IDs.

The kindly Burmese man who has harbored the mother, hears stories about her daughter’s beauty and intelligence, and gradually falls in love with his image of her. He becomes obsessed with trying to help the family.

He goes to the Bazaar with the mother; the thugs are at watch and the daughter is also in position. The thugs almost grab the mother, but the daughter cleverly sets them up as thieves, runs off with the mother and her saviors, followed by the thugs. They run through the spice bazaar and then over the Galata Bridge in a furious chase that uses martial arts and tricky evasions. The trio finally escape at the end of the bridge.

The Burmese man recognizes the gang members that are looking for the mother; they are the most powerful Mafia in Turkey, with worldwide criminal connections. He contacts a friend who is in Interpol, and they set up a trap.

After the trio discovers where the gang is headquartered, they have local jewelers make fake copies of the 26 Buddhas, sneak into that apartment building, occupy a vacant unit, and distract the occupants while they switch the fakes for the real ones. They set up a meet with all the smugglers that is secretly monitored by Interpol and local police.

In a final, climatic showdown, the thugs are captured along with the fake and real Buddhas, the three Burmese leave to go home to hide in their own country, and the kindly Burmese man and the daughter recognize that they are made for each other, as the mother had prophesied long before, when her daughter was young.

In Northern Myanmar, very near the Thai border, in a region plagued by rival tribal groups and drug smuggling in the midst of endless civil wars, antiquities smugglers dig through the ruins near an ancient temple. They find the legendary 26 gold Buddhas that people have searched for during that last 5 centuries, and escape with the priceless artifacts before the police can catch them. The police find the holes in the ground and barely miss capturing the thieves.

The police tear apart the village of Mai Maw, the closest to the ruins, in a search for the stolen artifacts, but find nothing.

In the nearby Kachin Mission School, an overworked female janitor enters the damaged part of the building closed off due to the violence of the civil wars. Her boss, the principal, threatens her with termination because she hasn’t cleaned well-she protests, and asks for the missing soap and cleaning supplies. He refuses.

Terrified of being fired, she enters the forbidden section in a search for soap, and finds a box so marked. She opens it, and a small golden arm of a Buddha drops out. She grabs it and hides it in her clothes, then closes the box and grabs some soap from the other boxes. She returns to clean the hallway outside the principal’s office, but is in a panic due to her dangerous discovery. She finishes and runs out of the school.

Meanwhile, in modern Yangon, the financial and political capital of Myanmar, her young daughter trades currencies for major international banks with headquarters in Turkey. After a successful trade, she goes to her office shrine, and hugs the picture of her mother, and dreams of earlier days when she visited her after she became a financial success.

In the dream, she caresses their Burmese cat, and gives her mother money to help their poor extended family. The mother asks if the daughter still has the dreams of a heroic man that have hypnotized her since she was young. The daughter responds that the hero has not yet appeared, and the mother implores her to watch for him.

Back in the village, her mother frantically packs her few belongings and leaves a clue for her daughter as to her new whereabouts. She runs out of her house in fear for her life, and makes a long journey that winds up in Turkey.

The principal and his gang of international art thieves realize that the mother has discovered the 26 Buddhas in the ruined section of the school, and go on a search for her. They go into her house and try to find a possibility about where she gone in an effort to escape them.

Meanwhile, in an internet café in Istanbul, Turkey, the mother tries helplessly to work a computer in order to contact her daughter. A Burmese man hears her whispered Burmese words, goes to help her, learns of her story, and compassionately offers her a house keeping job at his home to help her survive.

He helps her send her daughter a coded message on the internet that uses the cat as the clue, and the daughter gets the email, and leaves to go to the village. The smugglers enter her finance office, and also find the clue, and also leave to go to the mother’s home in the village.

In the village, the daughter discovers the clue to her mother’s whereabouts, and leaves for the fabled spice market at the Grand Bazaar, in Istanbul, Turkey. The smugglers also figure out the clue and follow the path to Turkey to kill the mother.

The daughter, disguised, shows a picture of her mother to all the merchants. One merchant recognizes the mother and the daughter takes up a position to watch, unseen, all of the customers that pass by.

The principal, along with two Turkish mafia types dressed as police, find the merchant who recognized the mother’s photo, wait in vain for the mother to appear, but they are followed by the disguised daughter.

She takes pictures of the entire group, and the license plates of the vehicles, and calls her contacts in the financial industry to get IDs.

The kindly Burmese man who has harbored the mother, hears stories about her daughter’s beauty and intelligence, and gradually falls in love with his image of her. He becomes obsessed with trying to help the family.

He goes to the Bazaar with the mother; the thugs are at watch and the daughter is also in position. The thugs almost grab the mother, but the daughter cleverly sets them up as thieves, runs off with the mother and her saviors, followed by the thugs. They run through the spice bazaar and then over the Galata Bridge in a furious chase that uses martial arts and tricky evasions. The trio finally escape at the end of the bridge.

The Burmese man recognizes the gang members that are looking for the mother; they are the most powerful Mafia in Turkey, with worldwide criminal connections. He contacts a friend who is in Interpol, and they set up a trap.

After the trio discovers where the gang is headquartered, they have local jewelers make fake copies of the 26 Buddha, sneak into that apartment building, occupy a vacant unit, and distract the occupants while they switch the fakes for the real ones. They set up a meet with all the smugglers that is secretly monitored by Interpol and local police.

In a final, climatic showdown, the thugs are captured along with the fake and real Buddhas, the three Burmese leave to go home to hide in their own country, and the kindly Burmese man and the daughter recognize that they are made for each other, as the mother had prophesied long before, when her daughter was young.