STRANGER TO BLUE WATER – When the sheltered daughter of a disabled coal miner falls for a Trinidadian man passing through town on a sales call , she’s torn between staying in the rinky dead end pennsylvania borough caring for her crippled racist dad or leaving with her dark mysterious lover on an adventure in the Caribbean.

>>>torn between

In other words, she’s trapped in a dilemma.

1] But loglines are not about dilemmas about decisions a character will eventually have to make. ?Loglines are about the decisions made. Decisions that either 1] Resolve ?a dilemma (for better or worse) early in the story or 2] Create an unanticipated dilemma further down the road of the plot..

2] And the logline presents a false dilemma. ?The choices presented in this logline do not constitute a true dilemma because they are not of exclusive and?equal value. ?In ?a true dilemma both options are either equally desirable or equally undesirable ?- but in either case the character must choose one to the exclusion of the other. ?She can’t have both (if desirable); neither can she decline to choose either (if undesirable).

“Staying in the rinky dead end Pennsylvania borough” versus “an adventure in the Caribbean. — ?obviously, the latter is of more value to the character, more interesting, more alluring. ?So what’s stopping her from leaving town (other than cowardice)?