Synopsis
A love story set in a remote fishing village in the west coast of Ireland between a burnt out, celebrity chef who has lost her sense of taste and a selectively mute seaweed farmer who for whom everything he touches grows.
– In development – recipient of development funding from Screen Ireland – Script available
Zoe is a successful chef in a Michelin star restaurant who has battered her senses with all the stimulants fast paced modern London has to offer. She arrives at her family holiday cottage on an isolated farm in the west of Ireland with the intention of selling it to buy out her husband of the home they built together in London. But this cottage also houses the long shadow of Zoe’s famous literary, dead mother. When burnout turns to meltdown, Zoe and her problems come crashing in on the silent world of her neighbour, Bill, a solitary, selectively mute, bachelor seaweed farmer.
A contemporary sleeping beauty, West Of Eden is an unconventional love story following Zoe from physical and spiritual bankruptcy as she gradually rediscovers an appetite for life. Along the way she challenges Bill, the catalyst to this transformation, destroying his safe and isolated world until they both find themselves face to face with all that stands between them and a greater capacity for life and love.