Treatment, September 22, 2023,
Logline
Two years before Google was invented, a top London editorial photographer meets a model represented by a respected talent agency. Nobody knows she also works in the underground world of porn. Her adult entertainment agent is a romantic interest going back to her teen years. Acting in the adult industry is the dark secret that she embraces, enjoys and pursues for 25 years while simultaneously curating an enviable family and respectable Miami lifestyle.
Characters
Tex Davidson – Born poor but talented, Tex Davidson worked hard to realize his dream of becoming a renowned photographer whose work is respected by his peers. He thought he created the perfect work, family and home life in Miami. A dark secret that decades later reveals itself had other plans for him.
Indria – A woman any man could love. Beautiful, humble and hard working, she was the perfect wife and mother. She filled her family with true love. She had an enviable marriage, home and family but lived with a dark secret.
Penelope – A brilliant daughter conceived after a South Beach night of clubbing complete with alcohol and cocaine. She grows to be a smart, beautiful, competitive woman and Ivy League “Cum Laude” graduate.
Vladomir – Indria’s first boyfriend she lost her virginity to at the age of 15. As she travels throughout the years to “see her mother” he books video sessions through his “staffing agency” with European pornographers participating in forbidden sex and sharing the illicit profits.
Synopsis
Tex and Indria meet in London. They start dating. Indria invites Tex to her flat for dinner. During an intimate moment Indria’s boyfriend, who Indria never revealed she lived with, comes home. There is a fist fight. Indria leaves with Tex and never returns to her flat. Indria solidifies an exclusive romantic relationship with Tex.
Tex travels to South Beach on assignment taking Indria. She gets pregnant. The baby is a girl and named Penelope. Tex and Indria stay in Miami Beach and build a family. For the next 25 years they create a friendship circle in Miami filled with barbeques, beach days, parties and European vacations.
Tex receives an anonymous email with a link. Tex watches Indria having sex with another man. After two weeks Tex confronts Indria who says it was a video an old boyfriend made her make and it is the only one she ever did. Tex is heartbroken, confused and wonders why Indria never told him.
In the summer after her high school graduation as Penelope is packing to go to NYC for her first year of college, Penelope discovers many empty boxes of wine hidden in a Louis Vuitton bag in Indria’s closet. Confronted with the evidence Indria denies she has a drinking problem. The next 5 years include alcohol use disorder, car accidents, incontinence, job losses, failed therapies, infidelity, interventions, inter family drama and estrangements.
Tex’s father has a delirium episode at the age of 99. Tex assumes guardianship of his father and brings him to Miami to live. Indria agrees to go to her family house in Eastern Europe “to get better”. Indria gets kicked out of her family house for lying about her alcohol use. Indria is consuming not only alcohol but also mouthwash and Xanax.
Indria returns to Miami still addicted. Tex divorces Indria. Tex’s father turns 100, Tex walks away from his clients and business to take his father back to his hometown to guide him through his end of life journey. Indria returns to Eastern Europe and accelerates her life long romantic and working relationship with Vladomir. Penelope cuts off all contact with Indria.
Vladomir keeps Indria working in the European adult industry. Vladomir encourages a lawsuit to force the sale of the Miami home. Vladomir’s intent is to cash in on the proceeds from the property sale to deny Penelope her rightful inheritance. It was Vladomir who sent the anonymous email to Tex.
Tex “googles’ Indria by her maiden name for the first time in his life. Tex discovers Indria’s secret. Tex realizes Indria was in constant communication with Vladomir during their entire marriage which is filled with twisted promises.
Tex stays by his father’s side till the end, an honor and a blessing. Their journey unforgettable.
Facing financial hardship, Tex writes his first screenplay. Nicolas Cage reads it and options the rights to produce and star in the film.
It is too late and a daughter’s inheritance is lost. The Miami house sells emotionally devastating Tex. Homeless and priced out of buying another house in Miami the last thing Tex says to Indria is “I wish you well”.
Vladomir pilfers Indria’s profits from the sale of the Miami house and ends his relationship with Indria leaving her penniless, homeless and addicted.
Tex looks for and finds his old Harley Davidson, the one he rode all over Europe one summer, but sold to pay bills during the pandemic shutdown. For sale in Stockton CA. Tex buys it back. Ecstatic in reuniting with his Harley that he owned for 25 years, Tex decides to ride it from Stockton, CA to Miami, FL.
On his road trip back to restart his life and business, a drunk driver falls asleep at the wheel and plows head on at 90mph into Tex killing him instantly. Penelope is left without a father and feeling like an orphan. Indria is in Eastern Europe homeless, addicted and broke.
Starring
Nicolas Cage as Tex Davidson
Abigail Spencer as Indria
Jenna Ortega as Penelope
Russell Tovey as Vladomir
Danny DeVito as Dad
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Disclaimer – The Twisted Promises film/tv series treatment is in development. Listed actors above are not confirmed and are subject to change without notice.
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