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SEVEN DEADLY CARDINALS

SEVEN DEADLY CARDINALS
By Anastasija Jersova

GENRE: Thriller, Drama
LOGLINE:

Seven people embodying the heavenly cardinal become the opposite sin. With life pulling them in the direction of facing the dark, getting through gutter, dread, pain and misery, they obtain their own obsessions in the dark. 
P.S. it is a manuscript attached, not a script

SYNOPSIS:

There are seven stories with seven different characters. Each is absolutely different to the next in terms of setup, location, community, problems and variables.

Chapter 1 is about a lady that falls in love. That love interest putting the grain of the dark in her psyche, as she becomes obsessive, turning her life upside down, just to eventually reunite with the love interest. Though getting to know that he's the local uncaught serial killer... Gives the obsession new level.

Chapter 2 is about an office worker who does all for the good of others, as he tries to go about his life. He is met with an anonymous admirer, who seems to become his friend. Eventually leading the situation into realisation that this friend is a stalker with great issues. Life in a golden bird cage is what the stalker demands of the office worker, with nothing that slightly resembles the escape from it.

Chapter 3 is about an owner of a florist shop, deciding to help the local community and orphanage. The help then dreads into the series of unfortunate events that pulls main character into the dark of trying to hold up life together. But even there, is a youngster who pulls it slowly apart, becoming the target of interest and affection, but the level of obsession grows into being unable to let go.

Chapter 4 is about a hard working tailor, who sets out on the life of fortune and fame, through the help of one great actor. But the life of actor, who is trying to make it all work breaks, after being declined by the tailor, pulling the success and gains into the drain, as the self-destructive mode kicks in inside the actor. Only to brew more of nothingness.

Chapter 5 is about a priest, dearly holding up the image of a fine man, a godsent, one that does the duties to the church and nunnery. The situation changes after the local gangster boss decides to have the priest owned by her by any means possible. Resulting in kidnapping and torture of a named brother of the priest. Such leads to the priest accepting the role of cult leader and throwing the new regime in church, as well as waging war on the gangsters in return.

Chapter 6 is about a student who helps his landlord father in upkeep and maintenance of the house. With the death of one of the residents, the boy receives the large sum of money and a new problem in life - the granddaughter of the resident that seeks to take that money for herself, with her ways being none less that torture. With her ruining the psyche of the student, as well as buying out the parents, leaving student with a witch aunty to help and pull him away. He eventually decides to ruin the life of the torturer, all that family to go down in return for what they did to him.

Chapter 7 is about a hard working youth social worker, who helps the youngsters find the right ways to bring out their talents and achieve success. Though this worker has her life in shambles. Living on minimum wage, as a way to deal with stress - drinking and hanging out in small apartment. The accumulating events of successes of the youth start to feel like something to rub in ones face. Eventually making the worker break and become the beast of "you'd be nothing without me", that results in tragedy.

SEVEN DEADLY CARDINALS

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