GENRE STORYTELLING WITH HEART
MEDUSA MEDIA
CHARACTERS
FUSION FOOD BAKER, RELUCTANT FATHER
Nick believes that a good dad is a provider. For the past decade that meant a thriving business, a mortgage and paying the bills. The only thing he’s never provided is his time. Nick is a defensive food snob who genuinely thinks inventing the Macaronut - a macaron and a donut together - was his contribution to civilisation. He wants redemption: his bakery, his reputation and his marriage back. What he needs is to be present with his daughter by making family style food together.
FANTASY NERD,
PARENTIFIED CHILD
Scotty is nine going on ninety. Now that her parents are getting divorced it feels like her childhood is over. As a fantasy nerd, she wants a fairy-tale ending. What she needs is permission to be a kid again, with a dad who shows up for her.
STAY-AT-HOME MOM, TURNED BREADWINNER
Joan is gatvol. For a decade, her identity has been “wife and mother”. Now she’s cut an asymmetrical fringe and is in her “Eat, Pray, Bang” era. Back at work as an auditor, Joan starts a rebound fling with her colleague Brian to make Nick jealous. Instead Brian takes her on dates, asks about her day, and remembers Scotty’s favorite authors.
FINANCE GUY, REBOUND RELATIONSHIP
Brian isn’t dangerous because he’s more exciting than Nick. He’s dangerous because he’s reliable. But just as Joan starts imagining a life beyond Nick, a surprise pregnancy with Brian detonates her new normal. Can she become a mom again without losing her freedom?
DEADBEAT DAD TURNED AMATEUR BAKER
Clint is the original daddy issue: an entitled artist who chose himself over his young son. When Nick has nowhere else to go, Clint offers him a couch, then begrudgingly joins the bakery. Learning to bake means facing the son he left behind and embracing the possibility that fathers can change.
THE AGE-GAP GIRLFRIEND NOW "GLAMMY"
Clint’s much younger girlfriend Clarissa has heard every excuse he’s made for his past. She loves him, but she’s stopped mistaking self-awareness for change. But Clarissa has frozen her eggs and is done waiting for him to grow up. Clint is barely getting the hang of fatherhood the first time around. Is he reckless enough to try again?
ETERNAL BACHELOR TURNED QUEER STEPDAD
Francois wants fame, instant gratification and hook-ups with no follow-up. He’s the only friend Nick got in the divorce, mostly because Francois is an even bigger mess. Then he meets Karabo: rich, gorgeous and newly dating men. Perfect. Except Karabo has two teenagers, and that’s not the kind of daddy Francois was after.
RECENTLY OUT, ANGEL INVESTOR
Karabo is newly divorced, newly out as bisexual and raising two teenagers who have opinions about both. He can buy Francois dinner, but he can’t buy his kids’ approval. Dating might be easier if he stops treating single fatherhood like a solo sport.