Story Outline
The New Path of the Buddha, London 1970's
Sydney, her Brother and Mothers suffered a great loss when her father Lord Allen dies.
Sydney was popular and very smart; everyone loved her and wanted to be like her, except she was not happy or fulfilled with her life.
Her Mother is busy with her Tennis Pro, she did not seem happy, just hoping for happiness.
Sydney goes with her best Friend Gwen into London and sees the Punks. “They do what they want they live their own lives and they are so real, lets be Punkers!” Sydney tells
Gwen.
Sydney asks her mother if she could move to London. Her mother says, “NO”. Her mother has a small fit, screaming and telling her she is throwing her life away. Sydney just stands there, she does not argue with her mother she just says, “I want your permission to move to London”
She stands in the Dinning room all night till the morning, her mother still says: “NO”
At lunch, “NO”
At dinner “NO”, in the middle of the night her mother finally says, “Yes, go. I love you”
The next morning Gwen meets Sydney at the train station. They go into London to start living.
After they trade their cloths & jewelry, cut their hair, they were ready for their new lives.
They met Siouxsie, Johnny and Sedrick. Siouxsie says, “I remember you two
What a change you have made!” The two Punkers moved on to their new friends floor.
Live the punk life! Beg for food, go hungry, listen to no one and do what you want. Hang out all day and night!
The Mosh Pit was hypnotic, frantic, and Syd would loose her self and forget everything while the music blasted.
They always come down and back to normal after the mosh pit. Life always comes back to the boring, mundane life, eating, sleeping and hanging out.
Syd tells Gwen that these punkers that they are with only care about looking punk, she give Johnny a hard time for wasting his money on a jacket. “We need to find the really Punks!”
Syd and Gwen go to see the king of punk Iggy Pop in concert, to find the true punks, the originals.
At the after party, Syd is see that Iggy Pop’s punk life is not for her. Following another persons rebel life is not rebelling your self.
Iggy says, “You’re a great bird, but if you don’t like it, bugger off!”
Syd says to Gwen, “This is not my trip anymore.” Gwen is sad and can’t understand why. Syd continues, have fun you don’t need me this life is your own.” She leaves Gwen behind.
She said to her self, “I have followed society and the punks and still I was not happy, I am empty really. I am going to do what I want.” Shedding her skin she is starting fresh.
The new Sydney walks through London, not running, and not seeking just looking. She sees a man siting at an outdoor café, she feels something she never felt before, desire.
She sits down with him. He asks, “are you a Punker”, She replies “not anymore”. He says, “ Can you just do that”, “I can be anyone I want, I can think, I can wait, I can fast” He was hooked, “Come see me tomorrow at my store on King’s Road, Jigsaw.”
Sydney, now, again, slept out side for the last time that night. In the morning
She arrives at Jigsaw, at 7am. Cameron gets there at 11am. She gets a make over.
They go out, to dinner, see Burt Bacharach, live together.
She goes to work for Camille Kahn and does a great job traveling to France, Rome, even New York. She works but she doesn’t take fashion and money seriously, she was cool.
She gets pregnant with Cameron and has a baby girl, she goes back to work, Cameron is Mr. Mom.
Sydney starts to succumb to the fast lane life style. She destroys other designers; she cheats for money and is doing Cocaine. On her boss’s yacht party, she tries to kill herself by jumping in the Thames.
She lands in the mud and it saves her from drowning. In the morning she wakes up a pulls herself out of the mud and sits on the bank of the river. She feels like she needs to leave this life behind. She has a conversation with Gwen; real or imagined it is time to start a new life.
Sydney is sitting at the river, and the ferry pulls in. The Ferry driver asks her, “do you need a lift to the other side.” Sydney answers, “I need a lift, somewhere”. She gets on the ferry, and they don’t say a word. That night Sydney sleeps in the back of the ferry dock, on a cot next to Valerie.
They live together, Valerie and Sydney start to look the same, and Valerie teaches her to listen to the river. Ten years pass and Sydney is happy. One day a Chelsea Girl shows up, “very Posh” , she says to Sydney, “You’re my Mom”. Sydney says yes, and asks where is your father. He is dead, hit by a taxi a moth ago coming to see you.
Chelsea moves in with the women, and it doesn’t go well, their life is too plain, and Sydney lets her walk all over her. Chelsea leaves and Sydney feels loss.
20 years later she is the ferry woman; no one notices that Valerie died they looked the same. She takes people across every day and is at piece. One day an American family on bikes cross on the ferry. The little boy Felipe stands next to her and holds the wheels too. Says nothing and only smiles.
One day an old friend gets on the ferry, its Gwen, they talk and she tells her about her life, the river, and her happiness she has. They take the ferry down the Thames talking, or imagining that they are.
The New Path of the Buddha, London 1970's
Sydney, her Brother and Mothers suffered a great loss when her father Lord Allen dies.
Sydney was popular and very smart; everyone loved her and wanted to be like her, except she was not happy or fulfilled with her life.
Her Mother is busy with her Tennis Pro, she did not seem happy, just hoping for happiness.
Sydney goes with her best Friend Gwen into London and sees the Punks. “They do what they want they live their own lives and they are so real, lets be Punkers!” Sydney tells
Gwen.
Sydney asks her mother if she could move to London. Her mother says, “NO”. Her mother has a small fit, screaming and telling her she is throwing her life away. Sydney just stands there, she does not argue with her mother she just says, “I want your permission to move to London”
She stands in the Dinning room all night till the morning, her mother still says: “NO”
At lunch, “NO”
At dinner “NO”, in the middle of the night her mother finally says, “Yes, go. I love you”
The next morning Gwen meets Sydney at the train station. They go into London to start living.
After they trade their cloths & jewelry, cut their hair, they were ready for their new lives.
They met Siouxsie, Johnny and Sedrick. Siouxsie says, “I remember you two
What a change you have made!” The two Punkers moved on to their new friends floor.
Live the punk life! Beg for food, go hungry, listen to no one and do what you want. Hang out all day and night!
The Mosh Pit was hypnotic, frantic, and Syd would loose her self and forget everything while the music blasted.
They always come down and back to normal after the mosh pit. Life always comes back to the boring, mundane life, eating, sleeping and hanging out.
Syd tells Gwen that these punkers that they are with only care about looking punk, she give Johnny a hard time for wasting his money on a jacket. “We need to find the really Punks!”
Syd and Gwen go to see the king of punk Iggy Pop in concert, to find the true punks, the originals.
At the after party, Syd is see that Iggy Pop’s punk life is not for her. Following another persons rebel life is not rebelling your self.
Iggy says, “You’re a great bird, but if you don’t like it, bugger off!”
Syd says to Gwen, “This is not my trip anymore.” Gwen is sad and can’t understand why. Syd continues, have fun you don’t need me this life is your own.” She leaves Gwen behind.
She said to her self, “I have followed society and the punks and still I was not happy, I am empty really. I am going to do what I want.” Shedding her skin she is starting fresh.
The new Sydney walks through London, not running, and not seeking just looking. She sees a man siting at an outdoor café, she feels something she never felt before, desire.
She sits down with him. He asks, “are you a Punker”, She replies “not anymore”. He says, “ Can you just do that”, “I can be anyone I want, I can think, I can wait, I can fast” He was hooked, “Come see me tomorrow at my store on King’s Road, Jigsaw.”
Sydney, now, again, slept out side for the last time that night. In the morning
She arrives at Jigsaw, at 7am. Cameron gets there at 11am. She gets a make over.
They go out, to dinner, see Burt Bacharach, live together.
She goes to work for Camille Kahn and does a great job traveling to France, Rome, even New York. She works but she doesn’t take fashion and money seriously, she was cool.
She gets pregnant with Cameron and has a baby girl, she goes back to work, Cameron is Mr. Mom.
Sydney starts to succumb to the fast lane life style. She destroys other designers; she cheats for money and is doing Cocaine. On her boss’s yacht party, she tries to kill herself by jumping in the Thames.
She lands in the mud and it saves her from drowning. In the morning she wakes up a pulls herself out of the mud and sits on the bank of the river. She feels like she needs to leave this life behind. She has a conversation with Gwen; real or imagined it is time to start a new life.
Sydney is sitting at the river, and the ferry pulls in. The Ferry driver asks her, “do you need a lift to the other side.” Sydney answers, “I need a lift, somewhere”. She gets on the ferry, and they don’t say a word. That night Sydney sleeps in the back of the ferry dock, on a cot next to Valerie.
They live together, Valerie and Sydney start to look the same, and Valerie teaches her to listen to the river. Ten years pass and Sydney is happy. One day a Chelsea Girl shows up, “very Posh” , she says to Sydney, “You’re my Mom”. Sydney says yes, and asks where is your father. He is dead, hit by a taxi a moth ago coming to see you.
Chelsea moves in with the women, and it doesn’t go well, their life is too plain, and Sydney lets her walk all over her. Chelsea leaves and Sydney feels loss.
20 years later she is the ferry woman; no one notices that Valerie died they looked the same. She takes people across every day and is at piece. One day an American family on bikes cross on the ferry. The little boy Felipe stands next to her and holds the wheels too. Says nothing and only smiles.
One day an old friend gets on the ferry, its Gwen, they talk and she tells her about her life, the river, and her happiness she has. They take the ferry down the Thames talking, or imagining that they are.