A Birthday to Remember: The Memory Address Book (A Birthday to Forget) (working titles)
Logline: when Simon discovers that his grandmother has Alzheimer's, he sets out to create a birthday party for her to make a tangible memory that they can both cherish before the light of hope fades and as he creates a friendship map from her address book in order to organize the party and takes her to meet some of the people in it, he quickly discovers as he sifts through her associates that not all those in it should be permanent friendship landmarks. Written by Jill Thrussell
The Story: when Simon, who is eleven years, discovers that his grandmother (grandfather) has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, he decides to try and make her (his) birthday special in order to provide a tangible memory for them both to cherish before the light of hope fades. In order to do so Simon finds his grandmother's (grandfather's) address book, puts it in his laptop and gets an app to help him make a friendship map for her (him.) Since part of Simon's birthday plan is to organize some meet ups around town to see some of his grandmother's (grandfather's) friends and associates at some of her (his) old haunts which he takes her (him) to in her (his) wheelchair in the hope that he will be able to organize a birthday party from some of the people they meet, he also hopes that perhaps their encounters with the past might trigger some happy memories along the way. However, en-route to organising the birthday party, after some wild experiences with some of her (his) contacts when they get caught up in a bank heist, a drug bust and a bachelorette party, he quickly discovers that not everyone in the address book should be invited to the party at all due to the nature of their associations or misassociations and that some represent quicksand in terms of their past friendships. In fact, later it actually transpires that some associations should be deleted from the friendship map completely as he tries to sift through her (his) contacts and the people they meet to discover those that are truly friends to find some solid land of friendship to celebrate her (his) birthday upon, attempts to identify those who are reliable and should be made into permanent landmarks of companionship that can be revisited and establish those who won't ruin the party that he wants to create and turn it into a junkyard and along the way, as they wander through life, his grandmother (grandfather) teaches him a thing or two about memory, life, friendship and enemies. Written by Jill Thrussell