This casting call is for the character of Martha and George.
Logline:
Lena, a young woman who was kidnapped and used as a surrogate mother for Martha and George without her consensus, finally finds an opportunity to escape from their hold on her final days of pregnancy.
Synopsis:
Lena, a homeless, young girl is kidnapped by George and impregnated to have a baby that George and his wife Martha can bring up together. She is kept locked in her room in a house in the desert and provided with all the basic necessities with no freedom.
On her final days of pregnancy. Lena finds an opportunity to finally escape from the house. She eventually manages to to do so by faking her labor and hurting Martha when George wasn’t at home. While running from her home she gets into her actual labor and that forces her to return to the facilities of George and Martha’s home where she undergoes a water birth all by herself, but passes out in pain in the process. The baby which came out, drowned in water and died.
George returns home to see Martha dead, lying in a pool of blood and Lena in the bathtub with the dead baby attached to her by the umbilical cord. He takes the baby away and pushes Lena into the water in the tub and kills her.
George gives the still baby to dead Martha and contemplates on the mistakes he made in the process.
Cast description:
Martha: Female, late 30s, chubby, stereotypical housewife.
George: Male, early 40s, slightly obese, big white guy