BLACK MOSS feature screenplay

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BLACK MOSS

feature screenplay

by Nicola Baldwin

One morning near midsummer ANGELA CARTWRIGHT wakes on the roof of her car on the Yorkshire moors with no memory of the last 9 hours. After her story goes viral with further ‘alien’ encounters around the cottage she rents with her biker husband OSKAR, ANGELA'S quest to discover what is happening sends shock waves through their lives and her neighbours’, customers at the village pub where she works, the local motorcycle gang and the ‘Shining Women’ who are gathering underground... ANGELA reconnects with her first boyfriend, CHARLIE, back from London eager for a fresh start, who convinces her that the ‘Shining Women’ she has seen will help her find a new life, but only by destroying her old one.

Set in the Yorkshire Peak District where traditional sheep farming is eroded by climate change and former industrial communities hollowed out by economic decline, ANGELA finds herself stranded between a past that no longer exists and a future that seems impossible, feeling alienated in her own life.

BLACK MOSS was selected for The Writers Lab UK & Ireland 2022.

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