Blackbird series 1 of 3
Amrita arrives in Sydney to the news her husband has had a fatal accident while fruit picking. Forced to find work as a Swedish aupair and hike waiting for the coroners findings and probably fess her visa application she begins working for Kerryn Zitte a Manly surburbanite is n the tv 📺 ndustry teaching CHARLIZ, her trans teen Swedish and cleaning house.
She simultaneously meets FIFI a runaway teen who is cutting her arm on the beach. She was invites to live with her on the yacht and teaches her about how he joys of being a citizen scientist and watching out for ocean health.
Charliz also can introduces Amrita to Roland a lawyer and to whom unknown to Amrita she deals drugs.
When Charliz breaks up her parents marriage by revealing her fathers affair causing her mother to have a nervous breakdown she offers to enter the church that Amrita believes is involved with a labor hire company. She proposes to enter as an albino novice who has to wear sunglasses and sleeps in the day to avoid sunlight. However she gets caught speeding and the arrested fir cocaine possession she is thrown into a cell with a badly beaten up First Nations lad. Charliz mother Kerryn has to bail them out and is brought out her depression as she smells a story.
Amrita formerly a police cadet refuses all contact with Charliz after her bust.
Charliz successfully enters a he church and installs Axel on the he farm now leased by a bikie gang.
Fifi and Amrita make their way to the farm and Axel actually picks them up hitching but he doesn’t let on that he knows Charliz. He takes them to a farm close by that is owned by a woman whose main interest is getting her daughter married iff
Good points from Luke, leaning towards:
“A Swede and her fellowship collide with the dark underbelly of Australian immigration when investigating the mysterious death of her husband.”
Having experience with Australian immigration process, I’m into anything that highlights how draconian it is. That said, the logline is a bit convoluted. I would simplify it. I don’t think the secondary characters need to be included, as it makes the logline confusing to read. A logline should sell the pure essence of the story, the central idea, and it doesn’t need too much information.
“When she tries to learn more about the mysterious circumstances of her husband’s death, an ocean-loving immigrant from Sweden, who has recently arrived in Sydney, uncovers the dark underbelly of the immigration system, putting both her and her new friends all in danger in the process.”