Introspective Psychology and Romance
Logline: Walking through the alleyways of our minds on the search for hope.
“Kanda Land”: Two coming of age long-lost lovers meet again on the run from the people and feelings in their lives. They join together (more or less) to help each other sort through the tangled mess that the years of drama have caused both between them and in their paths to a brighter future. Where can goodness/hope be found when it (hope)’s always been the noose rather than the savior?
Genre/themes: Coming of age, adventure, romance, faith, introspective, drama, uplifting/hopeful, redemption, addiction recovery, crime, healing journey, Narrative, adult, drugs, sex.
Summary: Kanda Land is a journey of the heart and mind through the past that tries to steal the present, while seeking the future that is longed for and sought, despite the fact that it feels as though “Circumstance and time were their enemies right now; just as always, seemingly.” –Narrator. (pg. 23. Kanda Land, Loveless. 2023).
This story is majorly a reflective work and walks down the alleyways of everything within that we run from, the healing that can be found and is more possible than we think, the hope that remains for the future that is to come, and the redemption of life restored by grace through forgiveness and unconditional love.
Laced with love, hope, and mercy, Kanda Land is a hand that reaches to meet you where you are, and show you that maybe the better life you seek is actually not impossible at all. No matter how hopeless it seems.
In the end, the message held out in this trilogy speaks, “There is hope for you yet.” –Narrator. (p. 318. Kanda Land, Loveless, 2023)
Characters: E Trépson, a 5’ 4” 20-year-old female with grey eyes, sandy auburn hair, a thick Eastern Tennessee accent, and a history of trauma is on the run from an abusive ex and the monsters in her head, while struggling with a past of drug addiction.
Vi Chastity is a 22-year-old caucasian female with brown eyes and jet-black hair who comes from a narcissistic family but still holds love and forgiveness in her heart for the woman who betrayed her for another, four years ago.
Filmic Approach: Realistic, Narrative.
Comps: This introspective work of psychology takes twists and turns toward a final message of redemption, hope, and forgiveness; similar to the theme notable in the novel Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers.
Notes:
Kanda Land is my baby.
This 3-book novel series (stacking up to over 800 pages of emotional fiction) was completed in April of 2024.
It reads comparably to Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers, but truly, it’s a unique work of fiction that is very hard to box into genres or other author voices.
It’s adventure, and it’s technically romance, largely it’s faith and redemption, but it also has a mystery plot and gets quite grim in some places, and contains drama in abounding measure. It’s also a somewhat heavily narrated/thought-driven story.
- There are warnings I have in place for the completed series as a whole (which can be cut for funding and/or distribution purposes, if it comes down to it), such as: gunfire, no-nudity intercourse, and drug use.
- Only a few scenes of it have been adapted to screenplay.
A.M.M. Scripts 