Low budget, primarily single-location production featuring a strong multi-dimensional female protagonist with a romantic character arc and deals with gender fluidity and sexuality coming out of the darkness and into the light.

Logline:

Lara and Stone brother and sister, board an overnight train in Thessaloniki bound for Prague. It travels under a gypsy moon (once every six years) and they hope to recreate a story they were told by their parents about their own search for true love. They are joined by five young strangers on the same quest. They find out the story is a hoax, and their belief in an old-fashioned love story is a punchline to a cruel joke.

Synopsis:

Lara and Stone brother and sister on vacation in Europe, board an overnight train in Thessaloniki bound for Prague. It travels under a gypsy moon (once every six months). They were told a story from when they were very little about how their parents met.  It was the perfect setting for true love.  They were traveling north under a  gypsy moon while backpacking through Europe.  The parents recently passed away within three months of each other, so all they have left is the story of how they met. They decide to take the same trip their parents took to maybe find something that will comfort them or  perhaps a true love of their own.

They share a luxury car with five other people.  Four are  just like them – far from home and fresh out of high school and untethered from  all of societies norms.  Aki develops a deep connection with Stone. Maracella confuses Lara’s senses in the best way possible. The last is an older woman of 52 who seems to be looking for the world with fresh eyes.

Their meeting starts out as a celebration of youth and life but eventually they find out that each of them has a story that brings them to that place at that time.  The idea of the gypsy moon is a lie, and one that is shared by more than just the parents of Lara and Stone.  It is a story created by a generation of people who met under circumstances they never wanted to tell their children.  It gives the last mystery that they left and one that makes the children have very complicated ideas about Love.  They work through some of these complications before the night is through and ultimately discover something their parents never could. Love, for them,  might be less of a lifelong commitment to a single person. It could be an enjoyment of a single situation or even of  a group of people coming together to find something in the exquisite darkness that they travel through before normal becomes the rule.