Realizing the true "love of her life" has been in and out of her life for six decades, a 70ish woman, suffering with cancer, tries that love again.

SYNOPSIS:

(I’ll Never Find) Another You by Michael Elliott - synopsis

This is the story of two lovers, now in their 70s, who repeatedly had the right love at all the wrong times.

Realizing the true “love of her life” has been in and out of her life for six decades, a woman, 74, and suffering from cancer, invites that person into her life again for one more try at that love.

CHRIS WESTON is 75 years old. Quietly and uneventfully living out the remains of his life with no purpose or focus.

Then he receives the phone call that invites him, once again, to return to the relationship that has elevated yet damaged him for more than sixty years. He agrees to be her in-home caretaker, cook and companion.

His decision to return to JOANNA troubles his sister, VALERIE. She’s a witness to the chaos JOANNA brought to his life. The marital interferences, on both sides, including a shooting death. Multiple divorces, alienated children.

Their attraction to each other seems to be other-worldly and supernatural. We learn that perhaps it is.

The connective thread linking them from their college days to the present is a series of photographs that CHRIS keeps in a shoebox. The majority cover their youthful years…1967 to 1982. CHRIS doesn’t share them with JOANNA but uses them to remember and reflect on the many highlights and lowlights of their times together.

Breakups, makeups, love-obsessed freak-outs, CHRIS’ angry confrontations with rival suitors and JOANNA’S ex-husbands. All moments of shared personal history; tinged with heart-breaking nostalgia and regret.

The low point happened in 1996. They’ve abandoned their respective spouses to be together again when JOANNA’S 20-yr-old daughter AMY shoots to death her sexually abusive stepfather. A crime to which CHRIS confesses in order to protect her. Even though the final ruling is self-defense, the anger and scorn that follows drives them apart, seemingly for good.

As they settle into their roles of patient and caretaker, they rediscover the reasons for their initial and continuing attraction.

With VALERIE’S help, CHRIS reconciles with his two adult daughters, HANNAH, 42 and REBECCA, 37 and finally meets his five grandchildren.

As her cancer increases, JOANNA reveals why she disappeared just prior to their 1981 wedding. This resulted from her ex-husband suing for sole custody of AMY, then 4-years-old, claiming JOANNA was an unfit mother. The custody suit was organized and funded by DEBRA MORGAN, CHRIS’ jilted and wealthy ex-fiance` knowing it would halt their marriage.

Finally JOANNA introduces CHRIS to SPENCER WILKENS, his heretofore unknown 53-yr-old son who searched for her when his adoptive parents died. That absolutely changes everything and leads to the final personal, romantic resolution. Chris and Joanna marry.

The theme of (I’ll Never Find) Another You is that while love sometimes doesn’t conquer all, its memory and revival can provide emotional solace and hope to those who have loved and sometimes lost. CHRIS sums it up when during the wedding he quotes the poet, Robert Browning. “Years of pain are erased by moments of happiness”.

(I'LL NEVER FIND) ANOTHER YOU