Conrad and Columbine: A Fairy Tale (1873)

This journey begins in the year 2020, with a romantic, surreal dream and the waking of one sixty-six-year-old widower Chris Vadia, a retired professional musician, and his sullen celibate perspective due to his wife dying fifteen years earlier. After establishing the human surroundings of the time period, we flash back to 1970 and find how he meets the love of his life while on a wild summer vacation driving through California. A beach in Big Sur is the dramatic background for the beginning of their impassioned romance. Time then shifts through their college days, marriage, their struggling and successes, parental deaths, their Carnegie Hall debut, and then the crisis of having grown so far apart despite being with each other constantly. Our unforgiving fate, the duality of technology and the commonality of human emotion throughout history tie into a tale of human devotion that eventually brings understanding and hope.