A Tribute To Emily

Synopsis:

It’s the late 1950’s and Emily White is a beautiful and spoiled teenager on her way to spend the summer with her family at their ocean-side mansion on Cape Cod. Atticus Chase is a poor art student on his way to Cape Cod to do a series of paintings for his portfolio in hopes to become an illustrator like his heroes, N.C. Wyeth and Maxfield Parish. When their bus breaks down and the two find themselves on a weekend journey to get to Cape Cod, they strike up an unexpected friendship and form an inconvenient bond, given their wildly different backgrounds and social status.  

Those few fleeting days are filled with beautiful moments, perfect sunsets, and youthful innocense. But their magical encounter ends almost as quickly as it started and the two never see each other again.

 Until present day. When an old wealthy woman who has lived an unexpectedly hard life finds herself at the steps of The Museum of Modern Art to see the incredible series of paintings that has taken the New York art world by storm. Titled, “A Tribute To Emily,” the series of over a hundred canvases that line the walls from one gallery room to the next, tell the story of their magical weekend painted from memory over decades by Atticus Chase.

Emily walks into the first gallery room and slips on her headphones to hear the story of the artist and the paintings and is quickly taken back to that magical long-lost weekend. Our story is told in flashback, weaving between the paintings she is viewing in present day and the memories they trigger that she shared with Atticus decades earlier. The painting show ends with the touching moment of their goodbye so long ago. But unbeknownst to Emily, Atticus is also at the gallery and greets her at the end, not quite ready to say goodbye for good.