Lila Schow

Idiot Pageant Lila Schow

One day before the 2004 earthquake and tsunami, renowned pet psychic Harlan Beardsley lands in Indonesia to work with a group of unusually agitated elephants. The elephants promise to be his biggest challenge yet. Especially since he's faking his ESP. Cindy Brady is also working in Indonesia. A lawyer for oil giant Happy Enterprises, it's her job to pay off plaintiffs in a lawsuit against her employer. She expects the work to be difficult and dangerous, but she hadn't expected the biggest danger to be an overzealous human rights activist who keeps trying to befriend her. Far away in Iraq, Sabir Maaz has just received a promotion that seems too good to be true. As Special Inspector General to the Iraqi Oil for Food Investigation, he will finally get what he has always wanted; a chance for truth. It's risky, but Sabir should be okay as long as he avoids any American entanglements. As Harlan, Cindy, and Sabir struggle to make sense of the wreckage around them they discover that sometimes it's not the destruction of the world that kills you, but the rebuilding. Based on true events, Idiot Pageant offers an authentic look at what it means ... and costs ... to survive.