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THE HORSE OF HIS DREAMS
By S Zackery

GENRE: Family
LOGLINE:

When a young New Jersey boy relocates to the wild west, he enlists                                                                      the help of a paranormal cowboy to rescue a special wild mustang                                                                   stallion from the government’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM),                                                                         mustang adoption program and crack an unsolved murder.

SYNOPSIS:

BASED ON A TRUE STORY

Circa 1970. Based on a true story. Young Joseph Donohue and his father, Thomas, leave the suburbs of New Jersey and head west to Nevada after the death of Catrina, mother, and wife. Catrina’s love transcends death as she reaches out to Joseph and awakens his paranormal abilities. On the opposite side of the country, the Bureau of Land Management begins to round up wild mustangs for adoption. When a transport truck overturns, spilling wild horses across the highway, a lone black stallion emerges from the wreck unharmed. In Red Rock Valley, Michael Dempsey, murders homesteader Walker Rydel for the deed to his land. His objective – urban sprawl.

As the two guys settle in, real estate developer and good old boy, Dempsey, eyeballs his new neighbors, on Rydel’s land which he thought was clear of any incumbrances. Their presence thwarts the plan. Thomas, retired from law and suspicious by nature, bristles with Dempsey as he initiates an investigation when the deed to his property comes up missing at the County Recorder’s Office. Joseph struggles to fit in at school and butts heads with Mark, Michael’s son, but gains an ally with no non-sense, Jessica. When Joseph learns about the wild stallion evading capture from BLM, he is convinced the mustang is the horse of his dreams. Walker Rydel, materializes to Joseph, and with the apparition’s help, he goes behind his father’s back and saves the stallion from being destroyed at the hands of BLM.

Training his best buddy, the stallion he now calls Myriah, Joseph beats his rival Mark, in barrel racing at the local horse show for bragging rights. His glory is short lived, when young Donohue is stripped of his blue ribbons, due to an oversight in the rulebook. Meanwhile, Thomas discovers enough ground water in Red Rock Valley for more than 200 homes to be built without importing any resources from the city. The water rights are deeded to the Donohue parcel. Thomas and Michael go toe to toe when Dempsey shows up with the missing quit claim deed to the land with Rydel’s signature. As Dempsey burns the Donohue home, the apparition of Rydel materializes. He brings with him the spirits of the tribes from past generations to face Dempsey. Beaten, he confesses to the forgery and the murder. EPILOGUE: Joseph Donohue still lives in the valley in Northern Nevada, where he caught Myriah, the horse of his dreams.

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