Synopsis
PLUNGE is about myths that make us happy, about promised places just over the horizon and then a little further than that. King Arthur, Camelot, Glastonbury, Celtic kingdoms. Passing through the glass mirror from the bad world into the better.
PLUNGE is a tale beginning in Bristol, a city both beautiful and ugly, a town with big city problems. It's waiting. Like the characters in the story who live there, the good times were a long time ago...
What is the answer? Love. It is always the answer, whatever the question.
'PLUNGE' Synopsis:
Four drop-outs living in a squat in Bristol decide to learn how to surf to cheer themselves up and pull women.
However, it is the cosmic side of things that most interests Chas (Dugald Bruce-Lockhart), their leader. He soon becomes convinced that the board has been sent as a sign to lead not just them but the citizens of Bristol to a better life by the seaside.
It also helps them pull girls. And, if there may not appear to be much scope for surfing in a city like Bristol but there is certainly a demand for it.
Chas, meanwhile, enlists his fellow squatters to help lead the Biblical surge back to basics and back to a purer world altogether.
He is unsuccessful. Chas does, however, grasp the essentials of surfing just before Jake, (Charles Haydn) a new arrival, decides to sell the board. His plan is far simpler: to buy a mobile phone so that he may escape back into the real world.
This rash and unpoetic act precipitates a personal crisis for Chas. Consequently, Jake feels obliged to redeem the board from its new owner. It is, however, too late. And, as Chas remarks, time is running out altogether if they are to save themselves from the present Age.
Momentously,
they decide to go to Cornwall without the talismanic surfboard. Once there,
Cornwall in the autumn quite clearly isn't California. The shops are shut
and the only surfers about are rather better than they are.
There don't also appear to be any girls.
But their board joins them for a second time and immediately Chas meets a female sweeper dancing on some beach huts to her own, private music.
This is Clare (Kate Winslet) and she likes Chas, for all his oddness. But, in truth, Chas is getting less and less odd now that his dream is getting closer. As for the others, they appear to have salvaged their self-respect.
It seems Chas was right all the time: the board was on a mission to save them after all.
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