WHISPERING WOOD

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WHISPERING WOOD

By Bob YOTHERS

DUTCH DRAGONS ENTERTAINMENT - as CONS

Comedy - Pre-Production 2025

During the middle-ages the Catholic church commissioned a series of life-sized statues carved from a now extinct tree-line called, Canzon. Harvested from deep inside the ancient forests of Europe, the wood had a special property of being able to ' whisper' to parishioners.
Yet when the church rea...

- Year of production
- 2025
- Genres
- Comedy, Action/Adventure
- Countries
- NETHERLANDS, USA
- Budget
- 0.6 - 1 M$
- Duration
- 90 mn
- Director(s)
- Bob YOTHERS
- Writer(s)
- Bob YOTHERS
- Synopsis
- A devout Catholic, Police Officer, Luuk van Dijk spent his entire life attending the medieval church of St. Anthony’s in central Amsterdam, but is mortified when he learns that it is to be demolished to make room for
  a brand new cathedral.
  Riding by the ruins one rainy night, he discovers that his favorite deity from the vestibule is been left amongst the rubble. He takes it home and after a heated argument, his artistic wife Zoë agrees to do a restoration of the statue. A casual pot-smoker, once the work begins, Zoë starts to have strange flashbacks relating to
  St. Stephany throughout her history in the church. Zoë writes this all off
  as ‘bad weed.’
  Luuk in the meantime is finding
  it harder and harder to concentrate at work, relaxing police policy and begins to reconnect with his inner- self. He starts ‘feeling’ again. This is not like him at all. Likewise, Zoë has been acting strange too. Soon it is clear that SOMETHING is definitely different since they’ve brought this
  ancient relic into the household.
  Cleaning up her studio one day, Zoë inadvertently leaves St. Stephany outside and when she goes to retrieve her, she’s missing! They search the Amsterdam streets and finally find her comforting a small child who has been hit by a car on her bicycle. Yes, this is their statue... but she is VERY MUCH ALIVE!
  Once back at home, the three have an awkward introduction and the couple aren’t convinced this innocent young woman is really who she claims to be.
  Still, she has uncanny insight into all of Luuk’s secrets throughout his life at St. Anthony’s and she has troubles with the most basic under- standings of how a door works or how to feed herself, among other things. Is she a fallen angel of sorts, or someone conning the troubled couple?...
  As the days go bye, Luuk has become so ‘free-thinking’ that he’s given leave from the police station and Zoë is determined to nurture this young women, regardless of her true identity.
  St. Stephany is gradually becoming more ‘normal’ and along the way
  begins to help the couple mend their differences. Dusting off his investigative skills, Luuk returns to the ruins of St. Anthony’s and finds definitive proof St. Stephany is who she claims to be. Yet in a lapse of judgment, he mentions her to his priest and it isn’t too long after that church officials come to collect her, so she will be silenced in their vaults with the rest of ‘her kind.’
  What no one anticipated is that even though St. Stephany is an innocent from a mortal standpoint, she also has unshakable faith having witnessed the human experience for Centuries. With her other-worldly insight she’s able to not only remind the church officials of their original devotion, but finally heal Luuk and Zoë’s broken relationship.
  With the immediate crisis averted, Luuk and Zoë determine that their beloved surrogate daughter will never be safe with them and decide to ‘release her into the wild.’ Zoë has taught her well and the couple stand arm-in-arm as St. Stephany...