LOGLINE
Time-traveling shoes offer a
twelve-year-old girl a world of adventures, but her first mishap-ridden journey
warns her to seek some experienced advice before her next trip.
PITCH
Twelve-year-old
Aiyana Mitchell sits on the back porch of her home in Philadelphia wearing her
Bubblegum Taffy Hot Pink High Heels. With these time-traveling shoes, a secret gift
from her adventurous Aunt Olivia, she can travel to the future and the past. Despite
her mother’s warning to stay in the present, Aiyana decides to travel to the early
1900’s and finds herself in a boat on a lake with swans, wearing a lace dress
with a fancy parasol. Surprised to be there, she lets the parasol slips from
her hand, the boat capsizes, and she falls into the lake. When her time-traveling
shoes slip off and sink to the bottom she fears she’ll be stuck in the 1900’s
forever and calls for help. Aiyana decides if she ever comes back to the past
or braves the future, she needs to ask her aunt for advice. It has to go better
next time, she hopes.
SYNOPSIS
Twelve-year-old
Aiyana Mitchell has her Bubblegum Taffy Hot Pink High Heels on. She loves to
sit on the back porch in the suburbs of Philadelphia. With her time-traveling
shoes, she can travel to the future and the past. The shoes are a special,
secret gift from her Aunt Olivia, who used them to travel so many places it
seems she is on a constant vacation. But Aiyana’s mom always says: “It’s better
to stay in the present—forget about the past and wait for the future.”
Despite her
mother’s warning, Aiyana wants the adventure and mystery of the time-traveling
shoes. She hides them under her bed and her mom never notices them. Now that
she’s ready to use them, she thinks about traveling to the early 1900’s to a
lake with a boat and a fancy parasol and swans. When she closes her eyes, she
appears with a lace dress on, sitting in a boat on a lake. Aiyana grabs the
side of the boat with her left hand. The parasol slips from her right hand.
Then the
boat capsizes, and she falls into the lake. In all the commotion, Aiyana’s
time-traveling shoes slip off and sink to the bottom. Fearing she’ll be stuck
in the 1900’s forever, she pulls herself back up the side of the boat and cries:
“Someone help me get my shoes back!” A proper gentleman in a full-body swimming
suit, dives in her direction. Insisting she’s from the future she says she’d
appreciate it so much if he would dive in and find her shoes, so she could return
to 2018.
He makes a
couple of dives then finally a hand arises with the Bubblegum Taffy Hot Pink
High Heels and hands them to Aiyana. She pours out the sand and puts the shoes
back on. Aiyana returns to the present on the back porch with her mother
calling. As Aiyana walks into the kitchen, she creates a trail of footprints
and a puddle of lake water. As her mom cleans up the mess, Aiyana runs upstairs
before her mom can see her Bubblegum Taffy Hot Pink High Heels. Before she goes
time-traveling again, she’ll ask her aunt for advice. It has to go better next
time; she thinks to herself.
Copyright 2022 Jennifer Waters
