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SWINGING LONDON WAY

SWINGING LONDON WAY
By JF William

GENRE: Comedy
LOGLINE:

In London’s Swinging Sixties (1963-66), rock star MAX becomes a threat to establishment’s darkest operators: “The Wigs”. At stake: THE culture shock, sex revolution & Rock as the soundtrack of it all. 

SYNOPSIS:

“I have been up, I’ve been down, I never was one for the boring middle”

- Max Burton

Max is at the top of his musical career. He’s in love with the beautiful Ruby, a young rebellious aristocrat. He becomes the icon of his generation. One of his songs BE WHO YOU ARE is banned by the BBC, but cherished by a new generation, and spearheads the sexual and cultural Revolution, Max couldn’t be happier.

Yet one day, everything comes crashing down. Ruby falls in a deep coma after a very drunken party one night. Detective Krakhaus arrives on the scene, and stealthily plants some drugs in Max’s flat. Max, upon seeing him in the act jumps him and gets arrested

The Rat-Hole, a club belonging to Max’s mother, Sherrie, is also shut down, supposedly busted for drugs too. Sherrie learns that Max is being taken to Wormwood Scrubs. She needs help and calls an old acquaintance, Major Power. Together, they try to unravel this elusive web of lies and deception.

The events also force the young rockstar and his mother to come to grips with the dark secrets of their own past., as Max in his cell and Sherrie in her deserted club reminisce on what brought them there.

One night, Sherrie is shot down while walking outside. Will she survive? Will Ruby recover from her coma? Will Max ever get out of jail? Will Major Power discover the perpetrators of the conspiracy?

The answers in the next episodes!

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