In 2040, in a French village, ten years after forest fires killed her husband, Naïma must protect her home and family again. A multinational hoarding land and trafficking workers is suddenly threatening capture and worse. Fifteen people live in her house. Will they all escape?

Author: Anna MacLachlan

Story creator: Anna MacLachlan

Director: Naoile Ji

Writing coach: Naoile Ji
Proofreading and IT: Frédéric Mohier

Production Advisors: Constance Powis, Andréa Taberner, and Kristina Andreeva

Script doctor at the beginning: Magali R. Sullyvan
Artwork: Katrina Villevicencio (Washington, DC)
Grant application preparation: Anna MacLachlan
Budget preparation consult: Kristina Andreeva

Thank you so much to Andréa Taberner and Constance Powis for their time and expertise.

I am grateful to writer and director Rouane Itani in Washington, DC for her early advice and coaching that helped get this project started.

A French-American cooperation

For the Trinity production, an American writer (Anna MacLachlan) is working with a French director (Naoile Ji) and French-American artistic crew. One of the three principal characters in the story, Clarice, a doctor, is American and will be played by an American film artist. She will travel to France for the filming. A secondary character, that of  Clarice's mother, is an audio-only role and will also be played by an American film artist.  We will be filming on location in an historic French village.

Other funding for the project: Anna is teaching English to help support the project and has already invested $3800 in the project for the script doctor, artwork, the nonprofit registration, the writing coach, and the script software. The production advisor and the director have already donated many hours of their time on the project.

Anna MacLachlan is working with the director and production advisor to sign partnerships with local production companies. With signed production partners they can apply for local, regional, and national film funds to cover the filming and editing of the film.

 

Anna has been writing since her adolescence in South Carolina. She has 25 years experience in arts and cultural nonprofit management, in the United States and in Europe. After studies at the University of Paris IV and a degree in music and French from the University of Maryland, she worked for 12 years with over a thousand different international students to get their cultural exchange visas for the US, at International Arts & Artists in Washington, DC. Her travels have included Turkey, India, Cuba, and Guadeloupe. She is currently writing this film and a collection of stories for children. 

 

 

 Naoile was born in a village in the Vosges mountains to Moroccan parents who immigrated in the 1970s. She is the only daughter of seven siblings. From a young age, she learned photography, sound design, and interviewing for local TV and radio, while cultivating her passion for writing in all its forms. 

After a degree in history, she turned to humanitarian work and social entrepreneurship with a Master's degree in NGO management, which led her to work in the field for more than ten years and to travel extensively (Iran, Lebanon, Palestine, Colombia, Japan, Algeria, Senegal, etc.). In 2012, she directed her first two documentaries before leaving her position as Director of Development at Impact France in 2018 to devote herself entirely to filmmaking. 

She has directed three self-produced short films, including "When the Loriot Returns" (awarded

at Paris Court Devant) and "My Mother is Peter Pan," which was selected to join Claude Lelouch's Ateliers du Cinéma residency. Versatile on set—directing, editing, lighting, stage management, and production—she has accumulated five years of practical experience.

In 2023, her collection INTERIOR.NIGHT attracted several publishers, but she decided to continue writing it. Her latest short film, Trek Salama, was broadcast on France 2 in June 2025. She is currently preparing two new shorts, DELOREAN and I DON'T EVEN CRY, while co-writing her first feature film, QUE DIEU ME PARDONNE (a thriller), and the international historical series HEALERS/GUÉRIR, with two co-writers (Belgian and English).

 

Magnificent images of plant-life and diverse natural systems respected. Humans in natural light vulnerable and small in the natural ecosystem. Textured and realist images of human survival. Natural scenery in the French countryside. Welcoming interiors in a centuries-old house that is a member of the cast. A world full of trees, gardens, and wild plants that survived or returned after the fatal fires. Activities and objects showing the multiple facets of each of the characters in the story. Very little electric light. Very little plastic. The story is as much outdoors as indoors. 

The world in the film:

Each person is grateful to be alive, grateful to breath, but some worry that the chaos may return.

The post-fire, post-empire, post-carbon life is slower and requires more labor. The house and its surrounding village survived the wildfires by a miracle. The fires killed over a million people in France, not including the animals. Because of the overheating of the planet, fires and then flash floods forced the villages to support each other and find a new way to survive. 

 

There is little electricity and very little petrol.  People mostly use radios and the surviving landline phones to communicate. People learned how to repair everything when the international supply chains collapsed. There is much less manufacturing and the equipment that remains is only useful when the power is working. 

 

 

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