Title: Yesterday Once More
After being kicked out of his girlfriend’s apartment, Chuck is desperate to find a new place called home. While crashing on his best friend’s couch, he learns about a high-tech senior home that offers a work-for-trade deal to local college students. This senior home boasts the first of its kind, a facility without medical staff; in fact, all care is administered through a smart bracelet, which monitors their vitals and social media presence. In exchange for free room and board, students will act as resident’s Campaign Managers, where they must maintain their assigned resident’s social media profile. As he settles in to his new digs, Chuck realizes his job is to not just about the likes and retweets, but also to keep his resident alive.
What is standing in the way of the lead character accomplishing his goal?
This logline goes over the setup to the story but not what the lead character must do about it.
Nor does it go over the dramatic conflict of the story.
If the lead character’s goal is to keep his resident alive, then there must be someone or something who is trying to stop the resident from staying alive.
I think this is an interesting concept, and definitely something I personally haven’t seen before, but it is missing the conflict, so I am not seeing the story. Because story is conflict.