When a wealthy young woman begins a relationship with a carpenter during World War II, she must overcome the rising threat of a jealous Nazi businessman.
Type:
Feature
Status:
For sale
Page Count:
48pp
Genre:
Drama
Budget:
Independent
Age Rating:
13+
Synopsis/Details
'The grave - about love' is a story with a non-common narrative perspective. The "narrator" is a grave. The grave narrates what he notices about the world around him, especially the people. All he sees is the limited field of vision from his reclining position. From that static capacity, passersby step into his territory. In today's world, the grave has become a general memorial. Two officials working in the nearby mansion discuss a daughter's love coupled with threats of war. The grave then muses on a wartime love just before the German occupation. He thinks back to the daughter of a wealthy man, Isabella, who fell in love with a carpenter. The mansion was privately owned at the time. Love degenerates into death, with the changing social picture in the background during World War II. Yet impermanence has something comforting, as does intangible love. The grave sees that a person's death need be nothing more than fertility of the soil, but that people can make more of it, if they want to.

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The Writer: Frank Van der Meijden

Frank van der Meijden (1978) is a Dutch director and (screen)writer. He originally worked as a journalist and linguist/writer (Dutch Language and Culture). This resulted (after some years of experience in newspapers and magazines) in matching positions as a speech writer and language trainer. Later on he worked for the Dutch police and police academy (in communication) for more than fourteen years. The last few years in International Relations in corporation with foreign police forces. All these years he was writing stories as well. Nowadays he's a lecturer of applied sciences in Communication. He also composes music, publishes suspense fiction and writes scenario's. He has written (and… Go to bio
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