Little Trouble Girl
or, What You Will
A screenplay in progress.
It's Anna Hilary's twenty-fourth birthday, and she has chosen to celebrate in an unusual way. Her parents are the Baron and Lady Hilary of Sussex, who choose to live in a world divorced from reality, in which the British aristocracy are not of quite the same species as the rest of humanity. Disgusted by their incredibly outdated attitude, as well as by their profligate spending habits (and, indeed, her own), Anna takes inspiration from the classic Hollywood cliché of the wealthy disguising themselves, coming to live in the inner city and becoming better people for it. She chooses Baltimore as her destination and arrives full of big hopes, but soon finds that reality is not quite how Mel Brooks and Eddie Murphy made it look. She gets a job at a convenience store and, within three days of her arrival, is held up at gunpoint. She is saved, however, by Jermaine, the janitor, an ex-con stuck between the police and the local gang. Anna lets herself get involved, both with his problems and with him.
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