Act I · The Fall
Dating Woes and honey buns. A meet-cute that is too good to be true. A month that earns itself.
Chapter 01 · The Story
Logline & Synopsis
Nashville, Tennessee. Fall 2007. A romance that arrives like a gift and unravels because of a single sentence left unsaid.
IMANI JOHNSON (21) hosts Dating Woes on WTST 1600AM — debating unrealistic meet-cutes with the easy confidence of a woman who hasn't yet been humbled by one.
Then CURRY WESTLAND walks into her studio for the vending machine. He's 6'3", deliberate, and completely unbothered. One stuck honey bun later — something shifts. Over the next month, they fall. Quietly. Completely. His BBM message that night: holding you felt like Christmas morning.
The morning after their first night together, Curry's roommate walks through the front door. His name is MICHAEL. Imani knows exactly who he is — and says nothing. That silence becomes everything.
When Michael tells Curry the truth before Imani can, a single Blackberry message ends what she believed was the beginning of her forever. Standing in her kitchen, still wearing Curry's hoodie, she turns and speaks directly to us.
The Montage · One Month · DVD Night · Hand in Hand · Dinner Date
Three-Act Spine
The shape of it
Act II · The Morning After
Pancakes, OJ, a knock at the door. Michael walks in. Imani has one window to tell the truth — and lets it close.
Act III · The Reckoning
A candlelit kitchen table. A Blackberry. A tear. The fourth wall break. Fade to black.
The piece is intimate, specific, and short. Every scene is built around one decision — and the moment it could have been undone.
