An ambitious Ukrainian girl moves to NYC from Brighton beach to escape her conservative family and to fulfill her lifelong dream of becoming a freelance journalist, everything goes better than expected until she discovers that she has less than a year to live…

I am so happy this website exists. I am very very grateful for your help guys! It really helps me a lot!

>> Thank you a lot Richiev! Your advice is very helpful!
Should I be more precise about why exactly she goes to NYC? What is her goal?
I will be back with some new ideas.

>>dpg
Your idea is great! That's what I thought about initially, but stopped to go into this direction because I realized that it will be very hard to execute it. Most likely this will be an independent film (hopefully), so it will be very hard to finance this project.
But at the same time I would LOVE to write about it! Maybe I should just go for it...

Hmm, I will definitely come back with a new logline.

Or she could decide to defy her family and her own fears and return to Ukraine, not in spite of the ongoing military conflict and economic crisis but because of them: they represent an opportunity par excellence for her to be an eye witness reporter on the front line of a pivotal moment in European history. (She could be fluent in both the Ukrainian and Russian languages.)

The enduring appeal of "Bucket List" stories like this is that when confronted with a death sentence, the protagonist makes the strongest choice, risks all for her biggest dream, the one she could find all the excuses in the world not to strive for under normal circumstances. Or postpone -- the "ma?ana, ma?ana" syndrome -- because she thinks she has all the time in the world to wait until conditions are "just right". (Which, of course, they never are.) Most movie goers can identify with that existential predicament.

fwiw

Or she could decide to defy her family and her own fears and return to Ukraine, not in spite of the ongoing military conflict and economic crisis but because of them: they represent an opportunity par excellence for her to be an eye witness reporter on the front line of a pivotal moment in European history. (She could be fluent in both the Ukrainian and Russian languages.)

The enduring appeal of "Bucket List" stories like this is that when confronted with a death sentence, the protagonist makes the strongest choice, risks all for her biggest dream, the one she could find all the excuses in the world not to strive for under normal circumstances. Or postpone -- the "ma?ana, ma?ana" syndrome -- because she thinks she has all the time in the world to wait until conditions are "just right". (Which, of course, they never are.) Most movie goers can identify with that existential predicament.

fwiw