It’s called The Journey of Isabela Godin.
It is a romantic drama.
In the vein of Adrift.
It is like The Revenant meets Wings of Hope.
It follows an upper-class gentlewoman with an iron will Isabela Godin
And an awkward French scientist Jean Godin
As they struggle to make their way from colonial South American to Europe.
Problems arise when diplomatic issues strand Jean on the east coast of South America and he is unable to reach Isabela on the west coast. For twenty years. Then Isabela becomes lost in the jungle.
Together their love, faithfulness, and devotion to each over will overcome the distance and the greatest life-and-death situations.
The idea came to me when I read The Mapmaker’s Wife by Robert Whitaker from beginning to end during one shift when I was a nightguard.
My unique approach would be the fish-out-of-water experiences of French Jean Godin in Spanish Peru and of upper-class Isabela in the Amazonian wilderness.
A set piece is when Isabela is lying on the jungle floor, surrounded by the bodies of family members. Starvation and dehydration have taken a toll on her body. She is being assailed by insects. Then she sees a figure. It is a hallucination of her husband. Then she hears his voice. “Get up,” Jean tells her. She struggles to stand up from the jungle floor. Then she cuts the shoes off the feet of her dead brothers and makes a pair of sandals for herself. Then she throws a scarf over her body and, with machete in hand, plunges into the jungle.
Target audiences would be men and women (20 to 80), Latin Americans, students of history, nature lovers, and environmentalists with a concern for the Amazon basin.
People would want to see the movie due to the themes of romantic love, faithfulness, devotion, adventure, endurance, inspiration, and the epic, exotic settings of the Andes mountains and the Amazon rainforest.
