A psychological, sexual paranoid thriller romance set in and around the Denys Lasdun designed brutalist University of East Anglia campus and Norman Foster's Sainsbury's Centre.
As most students have gone home for the summer vacation, 1st year fine art students Charlie and Lola (played by James Van der Beeke and Katie Holmes respectively and perpetually 19) stay for the remaining summer in their infamous zigurrat halls of residence as vacation wardens. Before they know it they become romantically entangled in a tumultuous love affair that lasts for six heady weeks.
Naive and in love, Jake and Florence think they have found their own utopia, a total space in their desolate institutional hinterland (set on greenbelt land on the cusp of Norwich city centre); their idle summer days spent swimming in the campus lake and seeing the Francis Bacon's at the Sainsbury's centre.
However, when a native American carved effigy mysteriously disappears from the Sainsbury collection, their utopia and romance is soon turned upside down. Will Charlie and Lola make it through their dystopic downfall and descend into postmodern mundanity or have a preservation order put into place to save them.
Think William Egglestone's saturated summer romance meets cold, brutal Kubrick. The film will be incredibly pretentious containing jokes only art scholars will understand. The films underlying message symbolises the death of modernism, a very intentionally average post modern sequel will probably follow featuring cameo roles by Norwich's very own Alan Partridge and Delia Smith.
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