A college student from an wealthy Indian-American family and a punk musician belonging to a violent cult fall in love
Where
Why
When
How
Who
Where does the story take place?
Hawaii in the 1980s
Where do they fall in love?
A small venue rock show
Why do they fall in love?
simple reasons
they're lesbians
They think they're both attractive
Opposites attract
When do the characters fall in love?
Sarah is in her first year of college
Kitty is in her early 20s
How does the story derail?
Who are these characters?
Sarah
Kitty
Who are the other characters involved
Sarah falls in love
How is this a problem?
Lack of family approval (homophobic/family responsibilities)
Religion (Christian/Catholicism)
Sarah realizes she wants to pursue music as a career
Kitty falls in love
Kitty plans a murder suicide where she kills Sarah and her and they are reunited in "heaven"
Tommy has to quit music club
Tommy, president and only other member of Radio club
Cult Leader
Significant locations?
Radio club
College campus
local music venue
Sarah's family home
cult HQ
What is this period of her life like?
confusing
sarah is figuring out her sexuality
sarah is figuring what she wants to do in life as a career
What is this period of her life like?
She uses her status as a musician to trick young college students into the cult
She is just going with the motions
Sarah is the youngest child in a family with two older brothers
Who are these brothers?
Oldest brother is the heir to the mango empire
Second brother works as a detective (against will of parents)
Has a family (arranged marriage)
Has one child, baby girl
Married to heiress to a skin lightening product empire
Bachelor (possibly bi)
Smokes from stress
Viet-American
Wants to be the host of a radio station one day
Works several jobs to get through college
Sex cult
Extremely secretive
Maintains God like status in cult
Enjoys music, maybe only loves music (in the beginning)
Disowned by family at age 14 due to queerness