Film Synopsis

Eternal Victim of Love

Lavana is an 18-year-old teenage girl who lives in the countryside, this quite village is leaving her
searching for something more, out of her norm – her parents don’t seem to understand her
frustration and end up rebuking her and ignoring her hurt. All she has is her long-time friend and
crush Matthew – friends since primary school the two have grown up in this silent area and share a
common interest, wanting “freedom”.

Until Matthew mysteriously disappears without telling Lavana about it, leaves Lavana yearning and
becoming depressed and eventually going insane. He fled without giving her an explanation as to
why? The mystery is that the audience does not know why so they are on this journey with Lavana
to find out why Matthew has disappeared.

He left but the audience would have to read in-between the lines of the trailer and assume what is
going on. Does he come back? How does he come back? Why does he come back? Does Lavana look
for him? Does Lavana still love him? Other than romance and the side effects of it, (this is the gothic
element). The film’s aim is to highlight the effects of abandonment, encouragement and support for
young people.

Ideas generator:
Names for the protagonist:

I typed in Gothic names on the internet and found three female names that I liked for the film;

Lavana (moon)/ Acantha (thorn)/ Thethys/ Pandora/

I chose to go with Lavana because Lavana means moon in Hebrew and the moon signifies effeminacy
(symbolic of the monthly menstruation cycle). Also in Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem "To the Moon,"
the moon represents fatigue, alienation, loneliness, useless labour and unrequited love. In the 18th
century moonlight was thought to cause madness or “lunacy”; lunatics have “moon-struck madness”
and that’s a feature that has happened to the protagonist.

The antagonist is abstract because it’s a gothic romance, love is the antagonist, so is the lover, who is
seen once in the trailer.

Film title
The name I chose for the film was Eternal Victim of Love. The word Eternal to describe the
extent of Lavana’s hurt has connotations with fire, flame like the theological depiction of
hell fire and the inability to escape from it. The phrase “Victim of love” is to depict the hurt
inflicted from Matthew disappearing from Lavana’s life without any inclination.