Love at the Core

2011, 90 minutes

Wales will be destroyed by a super volcano, unless a beautiful scientist can tunnel into it. She must also choose between her two lovers: placid, ex-coal miner, David and dashing, playboy adventurer, Ralf.

Love at the Core An original story and screenplay by Martin John Solloway Synopsis It is a 90-minute action drama that explores cross-cultural romance against a background of natural disaster and daring scientific endeavour. Eve Marlborough is hot. David Price thinks it is because she is a cute British Asian with the mind of a scientist and the looks of a pin-up. Ralf De Pierpoint knows that it has a lot to do with being trapped in a tunneling machine heading towards the magma chamber of a previously unknown volcano, about to engulf South Wales. No one believed her, when she tried to warn politicians and fellow scientist of the existence of a magma plume creating a volcanic hot spot under Wales. That was, until the earth tremors, suddenly growing mountain and pools of bubbling mud made it impossible to ignore. Faced with almost certain doom, Eve is charged with finding a solution and has to seek the help of the last two people on Earth she wants to contact, her two ex-lovers and competing suitors – placid former coalminer, David and dashing playboy adventurer, Ralf. The unlikely trio, alternately speared by romantic tension and spurred by the knowledge that they have millions of lives to save, push the boundaries of engineering and madness with their scheme to divert the lava through a man-made tunnel and stop the eruption. In parallel with the tunneling plan, the lives of many people are affected by the terrifying changes happening beneath their feet. Seen through the reports of a plucky young television reporter, the bravery, comedy and tragedy of ordinary people, made extraordinary by the circumstances, plays out in the days and hours counting down to the catastrophe Racing against the clock, the tunneling machine is requisitioned, adapted and launched; however, when it is too late to halt the attempt, it becomes obvious that the machine cannot be sent unmanned and the chance of surviving the mission is practically nil. Undeterred, Eve hijacks it and decides to pilot the mole-like craft into the very heart of the magma plume, calculating a tiny possibility of escape based on her untested theory on the geology of the rock structure under Wales. LOVE AT THE CORE lets the audience feel Eve Marlborough’s suspense, sharing her fate with the two men in her life. Her heroic efforts to prevent the super volcano from erupting are matched by the choices she faces in her love life. Either way, her immediate future looks very hot and exciting.

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