THE SCRAP RUN

THE SCRAP RUNMacDonald Anderson is an Oscar nominated screenwriter. Despite an ostensibly happy marriage, his secret, hard drinking, adulterous character is about to be revealed. His wife Helen is a devout Buddhist in the face of Macs secular, world weary cynicism, and the near celibacy of his marriage leaves him out on a limb. Yet Helen dies in a car crash. Burnt out and consumed by guilt, he meets a bizarre shipping magnate, Thomas Lovelock, who offers him the

MacDonald Anderson is an Oscar-nominated screenwriter. Despite an ostensibly happy marriage, his secret, hard-drinking, adulterous character is about to be revealed.
His wife Helen is a devout Buddhist in the face of MacÕs secular, world-weary cynicism, and the near-celibacy of his marriage leaves him out on a limb.
Yet Helen dies in a car crash. Burnt out and consumed by guilt, he meets a bizarre shipping magnate, Thomas Lovelock, who offers him the ultimate sabbatical - a voyage across the Pacific in old cargo ship, the Nadi, bound for the breakerÕs yards in India.
The arrival of two passengers en route, the beautiful French-Canadian oceanographer, Gabrielle Agnes, and the man-hungry novelist Oriel Lynton, presents Mac with the challenge of honouring Helen's memory and supressing his basic instincts. Yet what lies at the end of this odd voyage is a destination which even Mac's wild, cinematic imagination could never conjure up.