Margeurite and Florette are outraged. Their beloved niece Pandora has been jilted, spurned, dumped, given the old heave-ho. They could go on. And they will.  Six years of a lovely girl’s life wasted on this cad. Tchah!

M&F were concerned when the news first broke about Pandora’s new amour – Sven Ryan, a Ph.D candidate in Egyptology. It sounded a little... shifty.  And his name was irritating. 

Still, they hoped for the best during the two years Pandy spent with him in Frankfurt, putting her own career on hold and working in the service industry. They stayed calm when ‘Sven’ developed a rash nervosa and Pandora took two cleaning jobs to pay the bills.   

But at last, with his skin condition under control and degree finished, ‘Sven’ accepted a position at a so-called think-tank in the Florida Keys and they were to be married.  

Pandora came home to settle their affairs. And then ten (10!) days before the wedding, with the family booked to travel en-masse, the loathsome thug sent an email to Pandora.  An email. It was ‘over’ he wrote. These last six years had been a mistake. Should he send on her things? No hard feelings he hoped, life is a rich pageant and so on.  

Pandora was destroyed, devastated, shattered, shocked.  Marguerite and Florette could go on.  And they will. 

But Pandora cannot and her sad and beautiful face haunts the Aunts at a Christmas family funeral. M&F want to get him and get him good. This man must pay. The Aunts are righteous and determined. They are AUNTIE VIGILANTES. 

And so they find themselves poolside at the Hemingway Hilton with their able young staffers, niece Penny Hanley and right-hand man Ravi Ceylan. A shifty young chancer and his bimbo girlfriend have materialized from behind the palms. Oh yes.  Ça commence.

The end of Sven. 

Now in first draft development with Telefilm Canada and the Newfoundland and Labrador Film Development Corporation.

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