Screenplay

It is 1980's Los Angeles. Alys, a wealthy young dilettante accepts the invitation of a stranger to "e;get you into pictures"e; and suddenly finds himself behind the movie screen in the black-and-white world of the Silents-a Hollywood precisely as it was in the 1920's where love is the only subject matter but passion can be expressed solely within the censor's strict limits: where neither love nor death can last beyond the moment when the director says "e;Print That!"e; Alys's love for the glamorous and elusive Moira Silver inevitably leads him to want to break out of this artificial world with her, back to garishly colourful Los Angeles.Screenplay is a novel as tauntingly erotic as it is brilliantly imaginative-a mysteri-ous and captivating novel that, while unique in itself, shares the magic of John Fowles's The Magus and Nabokov's Pale Fire.