THE ILLUSTRATED FAMILY DOCTOR
Synopsis: Gary Kelp
is haunted by the recent memory of his father¡¯s death. Back at work for an
organization called the Info Digest, Gary stares at his new task¨Chideous flesh,
goiters, tumors and diseased monstrosities¨Cimages from The Illustrated Family
Doctor, a medical guide Gary is condensing. This work begins to infiltrate his
life in strange and mysterious ways, and Gary realizes he is no longer just the
sum of all parts.
LOVE'S BROTHER
Synopsis: LOVE¡¯S BROTHER is a
story about that strange and wonderful thing called Fate, the name we give to
those unexpected events in Life which mock the finest intentions and often leave
the best laid plans in tatters. Set in rural Australia and Italy in the 1950¡¯s,
this bitter-sweet comedy revolves around the story of two brothers and the bride
who¨Cas Fate would have it¨Carrives from Italy betrothed to one yet falls madly in
love with the other.
The brothers could not be more dissimilar. GINO is
handsome, brash and impulsive; ANGELO, the older by a year, is staid, shy and
conservative. If they have one thing in common however, it¡¯s their fierce
loyalty to one another. Suffering in silence after another attempt to procure a
bride has failed, the luckless ANGELO decides to try one more time. But in a fit
of heartache, instead of sending a photo of himself, he sends one of his more
handsome brother GINO, hoping to improve his chances in marriage. When the
beguiling, Mona-Lisa like ROSETTA arrives in Australia from her small village in
Southern Italy, what she finds is that the ANGELO who greets her at the docks is
not the same ANGELO as in the photograph. The ANGELO whose image she has grown
to love with the help of her wonderfully vivid imagination. When ROSETTA¡¯S sense
of adventure in coming to a new country is damped, her spirit and imagination
are not, trusting always that the destiny which brought her here has already
decided that GINO will be her husband.
But it is ROSETTA, ANGELO and GINO who
drive the story as they struggle to try to resolve this awkward imbroglio
without hurting one another¡¯s feelings. Remarkably in the end, all it takes is
the power of love and a little bit of magic to make them realize that destiny
always has its way.