ETHEREAL CAFE - SYNOPSIS

ETHEREAL CAFE

- Marilyn 

LOG LINE:  Ethereal Cafe is a film about an unusual, older, holistic healing duo that causes dramatic self adjustments as people face their karma for better or worse.

SYNOPSIS:  Angela and Lance are the owners of a business venture called Ethereal Cafe where they get referrals of all kinds for people who are in trouble somehow in the soul.  A deceptively tranquil environment conservatory setting with profuse plants, birds flying fee and ornate antiques rococo style sits for people to join the working couple for a coffee and chat.  Intense light reviews in life that take a split second and slow the heart stopping it to recalibrate in seconds a new life to occur as part of this dramatic suspense film with astoundingly candid wit.

Linda is a seemingly basic dry cleaning business owner who lives a near spinster life with her brother in a house of her deceased parents.  A fire breaks out and they are left with a charred kitchen they have to remodel and this cases the move forward to finally sell the old place and get their own condos.  Linda visits Ethereal Cafe for a life changing experience where she faces how her worry manifests all around her silly situations that stop the flow of joyous life experienced fully. Linda meets David a business executive who leaves some dry cleaning at her shop and he asks her out when he picks it up they dine finally over explicitly candid conversation which breaks any misconception about Linda being demure.

Rob and Angela the married couple have settled in to a predictable marriage which does not rally include an acceptance of the work she does with Lance because of Robs trepidation about its unconventional aspects. He plans a road trip getaway with four friends who are all retired now as he enters his retirement year. Angela agrees feeling a break good for them after a kiss with Lance ensued at Ethereal Cafe.

Natalie a girl with cancer whose mother poisoned her slowly with Munchausen’s by Proxy ailment has a mother who visits Ethereal Cafe and drops dead of a heart attack when faced with the truth about the abuse of her daughter. Lane follows the death with a visit to Natalie’s house to see if she’d like to help out at the cafe.  Natalie accepts and shows up to serve coffee in the sun filled sanctuary like setting and to witness other revelations of visitors whose lives change leading to her own betterment.

Linda and David’s relationship heats up with more shocking revelations about her and she proceeds to sell the house after the kitchen is renovated to completion.  Ron her brother notes she is brutally truthful and eases her she never lies so during the open house Linda goes all out on a dare her brother gave her to actually lie.  She fibs that the old place was owned by moonshine runners during the prohibition and tells other tales about it. One house viewer Anne is smitten with the wild tales and buys the house the same day of the open house to Linda’s brother’s amazement.

Rob and his friends have a great time of humor and car racing entertainment on their road trip with healthy male bonding time.  

Rob returns home to more adventure laden Angela his wife who is more sure they should get a divorce with Lance in full agreement. Lance and Angela plot a visit by Rob to Ethereal Cafe to have some sort of a realization so he leaves Angela and he marriage. Disaster strikes during one such visit when he does finally arrive and he condemns both of them for cheating while he was faithful during his trip.  He storms out and divorce proceedings do however begin by Rob. 

Eventually he forgives and Angela and Rob come to an amicable divorce agreement also making Lance relieved greatly.

Angela decide to stay cool during a break from everything she takes accepting her marriage lost they close Ethereal Cafe for a couple of weeks and she readies her life for the change to being single again after thirty years of marriage. She has dinner with Linda who offers great wit and friendship to Angela.

Lance and Angela return to work after Rob decides to call Nadine an attractive divorcé he met on vacation from L.A. they have dinner and like two children are gleefully gossiping about both being single. Edward a European socialite and business man who was threatened by a gang member arrives at Ethereal Cafe to face his destiny.