Economy vs. Ecology

culture clashes

and family feuds

Circumstances force grown-ass twin brothers back to live with their NONNA,
speak Italo-English and pursue conflicting careers

SYNOPSIS:

Circumstances force brothers back to live with their NONNA,

speak Italo-English and pursue conflicting careers:

ED is a Concert Promoter/Ent Lawyer for a National Park outdoor stage

FERRIS is a Forest Ranger/Ecology Guardian for a government agency

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ED and FERRIS

35 year old fraternal twins have grown apart as adults.

Each successful in their way, happily living and working at opposite ends of the province for the last 10 yrs until circumstances bring them back to live with their Italian grandmother (Nonna) in the small mid-province town of Gwillimbury.

ED travels north from a glamorous penthouse in Toronto, he worked for his British ex-father-in-law as an Entertainment Lawyer (Concert Promoter) and is a culture-vulture.

Ed’s back to live with his Nonna broke from his divorce.

FERRIS travels south from the pristine woodlands of Algonquin, he worked with his First-Nations, buddy Makeewa as an Ecology Stewart (Forest Ranger) and is a party-boy playboy.

Ferris is back to help Nonna since NONNO (her husband) had a stroke.

NONNA ASCENZINA

Italian immigrant maternal Grandmother to Ed and Ferris, salt-of-the-earth savvy, vivacious and wise, schemer for family unity and quality of life issues

MAIN CONFLICT: (Careers) Ecology vs. the Economy

ED’s glamorous and only source of income without ex-wife’s access is to produce week-end concerts that pack the park at an old outdoor stage in Wasaga Beach for immediate maximum profit$.

FERRIS’ grass-roots job is to prevent the immediate abuses from huge outdoor concerts and save the park from future permanent destruction to wildlife.

NONNA makes them work it out to each other’s’ advantage

MINOR CONFLICT: personality and culture clashes

Ethnicities that SEEM seem opposite, are really very similar (British, Jewish, 1st Nations)

Twin brothers of the very same blood are really very opposite.

Nonna schemes to bring the family together, speaking Italo-English

Boys visit Nonno’s nursing home, he never speaks but makes himself understood

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NONNA OF THE NORTH