An ex-con spends her final day on earth inside a time portal wound back to 1985, there, she sets out to retrace the origins of her crime and make peace with her past.    

SYNOPSIS:

Setting:

The new-age movement (1975-1990); framed around the belief that self-inquiry and self-awareness were required to reach peak human experience.

Synopsis:

Attracted by the positive messaging of the movement, 18 yr old Jennifer Decker convinces herself that she can become a fully self-realized being and experience a new state of consciousness. But when Jennifer realizes she has zero experience in the area she looks instead to a medley of eastern holy-men and their emissaries who have re-branded themselves for the new-age generation.

With their live-and-let-love motto and alluring red wardrobes, the "Rajneesh” group easily stands out. Guided from afar by their Indian guru, the group also touts an edgy manifesto, novel therapies and a communal lifestyle. Jennifer embraces the group and their guru who, she learns, is on his way to the U.S. When word reaches her that the guru’s arrived, Jennifer’s path takes a jagged turn; from Seattle’s bright city lights to a dusty outpost carved across Oregon’s high desert wilderness.

Fueled by the zeitgeist, Jennifer commits to the group, and their plans for a utopia in the desert. In time, her loyalty is noted by a commune staffer who asks her to join a security cell assigned to protect the guru.

The decision becomes a fateful one when Jennifer discovers the cell’s been ordered to gun down a government official; unable to stop them, she braces for the unthinkable…

But ill-suited as assassins, the plot fails, sending the cell into disarray and Jennifer in an all-out race to alert the authorities.

Her sentence served, she starts a new life, vowing to keep the guru’s orbit as far away as possible, until one day, in spite of her efforts; she is pulled back, through a time portal, to Oregon.

ETERNAL BLESSINGS