LOGLINE 1

One Man. One Piano. Two Lovers. One Vietnam.

SYNOPSIS

"Retired" ARMY CHIEF JAMES DAVID CAINE tells the story of star-crossed lovers from his days as a young Vietnam Special Forces Scout.

Our Story begins the night of the very last Vietnam Lottery Draft in 1972. When naive young JAMES Birthdate is one of the first drawn, he knows he is certain to be called up. To avoid the confusion of being Drafted he decides to enlist. Once in Vietnam, he is shocked to find that his first partner and trainer, Master Sergeant THOMAS ELIJAH DANIELS, has fallen in Love with an aristocratic NVA Operative named LI MING SONG and intends to defect. Now young JAMES faces choices that will stay with him for the rest of his Life.

THE SUMMER OF '64

In the summer of 1964 I was 11 years old. And I can remember it was a different time in America. A more innocent time. No one seemed to use bad language. Politicians seemed to always tell the truth. The police were all polite and nice. Our institutions were held in high regard. And the only people who had tattoos were criminals or veterans from the war. It was a time before Horror movies and Gangster movies (at least in wide release). Even loud rock bands like THE BEATLES wore suits and had relatively short hair.

It was a time before drugs, before promiscuous sex, and a time before viscious street crime, at least for a young kid growing up in middle-class Rochester, New York. About the only global problems encountered by us kids was when we were told to finish our food by our mothers because there were starving children in China. But a series of events occuring half a world away would conspire to shatter this delicate American innocence forever...