White Wave Productions - The Minstrel

The Minstrel
a feature film in development

Where love rules, there is no will to power,
and where power predominates, love is lacking.
The one is the shadow of the other.--Carl Jung, 1917

Fiorland is a fictitious country suddenly struck with a devastating plague which the people call the "Touch." A minstrel, Gregoriel, loses his father to the illness and makes it his life's purpose to share with the people of his land the songs she taught him. He wanders with his lute from town to town and becomes known as a magical healer because so many of the ill are soothed by his creative, loving presence.
Damiel, a leader of a gang of violent thieves, sees Gregoriel’s positive influence on the people as a threat to his ambitions to become Emperor of Fiorland, and he tries to convince the people that Gregoriel's lute is an instrument of evil. He attacks the minstrel, steals his lute, and forces him to flee to the mountains with his young orphaned friend, Loria.

When Gregoriel is not able to save Loria from the Touch, he is overcome by guilt and loses all desire to live. Just as he is about to end his life, he discovers a young woman, Rosalin, suffering from a poisonous insect bite. She had escaped to the forest when Damiel, besotted with unrequited love for her, threatened to make her his wife by force.

Rosalin is strong, insightful, and courageous, and when Gregoriel nurses her back to health, she returns the favour by helping him find renewed self-confidence and hope. She then convinces Gregoriel to use his restorative powers on his nemesis Damiel, himself now "touched," and by this great act of forgiveness, understanding, and integration of their souls’ shadow and light, Gregoriel, Damiel and Rosalin heal not only themselves, but their whole community.

Original Feature Film Screenplay written by Geneviève Appleton
Producer: White Wave Productions