STEP 4: Writing your synopsis

Task: You are going to write a synopsis for the Unad Film Festival that will take place next
month.
According to the planning, write your sinopsis. It has to be coherent with the Pre-writing
activity.
Synopsis:
Is aterrifying and exciting story based on one
family’s experience of the 2004 tsunami.
Maria, Henrry and their three sons begin their
winter vacation in Thailand looking forward to a
few days in tropical paradise. But one morning of
December , when the family relaxes around the pool
after their Christmas festivities the night before, a
terrifying roar rises up from the center of the earth.
As Maria freezes in fear, a huge wall of black water
races across the hotel grounds toward her.
Henry grabs the two youngest boys, but it’s too late:
the wave smashes into him with incredible force and
dislodges his grip. Maria is pushed underwater,
where she is crushed and battered by debris to the
brink of death. Maria gasps for breath, while she
tries to understand what has just happened,
convinced that her family has been obliterated in the
blink of an eye. But then, her eldest son, Lucas,
surfaces a few meters ahead in the wild flood. Face-
to-face with something unexpected and
incomprehensible, she must fight against all odds
for her child’s survival. And her own.
finally they meet, following the family traveled in
a ambulance airplane to Singapore for Maria's
further medical treatment, arranged by their
insurance company.

General information:
Genre: Drama, Catastrophes
running time: 113 minutes
release date: 11 October 2012 (Spain)
cast: Naomi Watts
Ewan McGregor
Tom Holland
director: Juan Antonio Bayona
producers: Álvaro Augustin
Belen Atienza
Enrique López Lavigne
Writers: Sergio G. Sánchez, María Belón

Cinematography: Óscar Faura