It came to me all at once. It’s a great idea, of the genre that professionals call coming-of-age. The prota would be a teenager struggling to find his place in the world. There would be a lot of dystopia. Which one exactly, I don’t know yet. The teenager would be called Toni, who doesn’t commit much to anything, but, now that I think about it, maybe I’ll call him Bruno, which is more current, as it were. Bruno tries to leave the addiction he has been living with since he was born (his mother is a polydrug addict).
The action would take place in a fictitious city, a bit like Girona but with Lleida fog. There would be a nuclear power plant nearby because this detail would mislead those who thought they had identified it. Does the city need to have a name? If we can spare it, all the better.
In addition to the addiction problems inherited from his mother, Bruno would struggle between platonic love for a schoolmate with Asperger’s and doubts about his sexual identity. She’s not quite comfortable in her XY body and is considering transitioning.
Nico (I think he won’t be called Bruno eventually) has problems with broccoli. He doesn’t like it at all and the only way to deal with it is by taking MDPV. When he does, he sees in his dreams the image of an adult abusing him. A memory not assumed? The image is always the same, so the scene could be shot in half an hour and repeated throughout the series.
They would be very slow chapters, which would allow us to delve deeper into the toxic relationships that Nico lives and, above all, the aforementioned struggle to find his place in the world. This is basic. In any case, it would have to have many chapters, and several seasons, to stretch the gum to exasperation. Tomorrow I will start writing what the professionals call the bible and next week I will send it to HBO or maybe to Netflix; I haven’t decided yet.
