SILVER IN THE SKY - SYNOPSIS

SILVER IN THE SKY

-Marilyn 

LOG LINE:  Silver in the Sky is a story like an impressionists painting with lovely cinematography and deeper questions of French aristocratic characters in Paris coming to the surface about life, the mystery of Nibiru and the fascinating work of a great jewelry house inspired by the explorations of children in nature.

SYNOPSIS: Madeline’s precocious son Jean is an avid collector of frogs with his fiends Criste and Robert who also expand the collection to snakes and butterflies.  The children in the park and trade creatures in their secret club and oddly Nicole’s daughters Anna and Alise have a swarm of bees that appear from nowhere in one of their rooms which have to be coaxed out by a jar of honey. Honey is used ironically to capture flies by Jean’s club to feed their frogs. Nicole is a high fashion jeweler who is inspired by these events to create a unique collection called Creatures in the Gardens. Nicole secretly works on this collections and does not tell anyone about her creations however people around her begin to suspect that she is creating something wondrous.

Anna and Alise speculate about the lost planet of Nibiru in their room having constructed a model of the solar system with the ancient planet distancing itself from the sun. They experience the magical appearance of a phoenix that flies across their balcony dropping a large golden feather. The girls continue to research this maddeningly mysterious topic suspecting that some may have incarnated amongst them from the people of that planet that came to Earth though their mother’s friend Madeline is quiet about this without revealing the truth.

Ingrid a German immigrant who has left her former life to paint is living in Montmartre and is quietly painting discovered by locals and visitors from Paris who love here art. She meets Jean and Madeline and paints his portrait which the parents fall in love with and order two more for themselves. Ingrid’s father Klaus arrive in Montmartre looking for his daughter who left a previous lover a very wealthy older Parisian. Klaus brings her some money and decides to visit for a week.  Ingrid revisits her dad and they catch up on life and he plans a surprise for her. Shortly after Ingrid meets Andre a bohemian French recording artist who stays up with her into the late hours laughing and discussing their philosophies on life. Ingrid has a cynical bite Andre begins to challenge some of her blocks to progress in her life that sets her free to greater happiness while he heals his heart from a deceased loved.

Nicole’s jewellery show held at one of the local prestigious stores is a stunning success Jean brings his pet beetle to the affair nearly enchanting some of the guests, drinks his first glass of champagne  alone at age eight while his parents are not looking and falls asleep against the wall in the corner of the store on the floor. Ingrid and Andre attend the show Ingrid is mesmerised by the collection as she and Andre both have a love of gardens.  Andre purchases a piece for Ingrid as a surprise taking a chance on the new relationship which he presents to her later.

Klaus meets Ingrid on his last day in Paris in Montmartre and presents her with a small home he has purchased for her stay there rescuing her form a horrible little apartment she was stuck in after leaving her previous lover swiftly. Ingrid is thrilled and even more thrilled when her father presents her with a second key to a Paris ultra modern flat that he bought for himself to visit her more frequently. Klaus leaves for Germany and Ingrid finally feels closer to being settled with more order in her life in France.

Andre is preparing for a new album recording and composes several songs inspired by his new relationship. Ingrid distressed one night in her new house calls him to get rid of a ghost haunting the wine cellar in her new home.  Andre slightly chilled from the encounter nevertheless perseveres to extradite the ghost to another dimension of peace away from the house through the tactic of song. He succeeds to Ingrid’s delight and the house is free of lingering spirits of the dead. 

Madeline wakes up one night and has a terrible dream of being in the cold on Nibiru distancing itself from the sun. Charles consoles her in the night and she finds warmth with him in their bed in his arms as they snuggle back to sleep soothing her.

Andre meanwhile get an offer from the USA to become an American recording artist. Knowing he would lose Ingrid for a lavender apartment and Buick he decides to stay in France.

Madeline and Charles lose their stern house keeper to a heart attack and hire a young girl fresh out of culinary school who Jean adores and knows his odd collection of creatures will now be safe from scrutiny as ‘appropriate.’

Jacques has a final show down in a restaurant with an investor acquaintance that has lost him money three times. A scene ensues as he tells him off in public and Nicole and he then commence to celebrate her success and more involvement of her in his investments replacing his previous investment comrade.