K.J. Yossman Wonder and Forest Sounds are set to launch U.K. original limited series “The Price of Paradise.” Hosted by Alice Levine (“British Scandal”), it tells the true story of two women battling over an island on the Mosquito Coast of Nicaragua.
One is a sun-seeking Brit; the other a local human rights lawyer. “One woman is swapping rural England for a sun-drenched utopia,” reads the logline. “The other is fighting for indigenous rights.
But it’s a battle that will end in kidnap, corruption and murder.” The story kicks off in 2000 when Hampshire-based mother-of-three Jayne Gaskin stumbles across a website selling private islands.
Gaskin doesn’t hesitate to trade her village home for a tropical paradise and brings a production company along for the ride.
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