THE * KISS A Screen-Play by Paul Smith Desperate JASSY ROWE has fled her miserable life in a drought-stricken town where she worked in the bank to support her family including her abusive father to the 'big smoke' of Middleburg. Dreaming of stardom, beautiful JASSY is cast as "Lorna Doone" by the play's lecherous local repertory company director her new Bank Manager boss, JAMES KING. Hollywood acting casualty VAL HOOPER is in jail for robbery. His parole hangs on him acting in "Lorna Doone" and a psychiatric report by Dr Findgold. Cast as lovers, sparks begin to fly between them and the rest of the cast. Strange events occur. Their lives are thrown into turmoil as the play begins to obsess them. Has this all happened before? THE KISS is a unique comedy, love story, psychological and supernatural thriller. Society is obsessed and possessed by psychological problems and many are fascinated by blind spots and near death experiences and reincarnation and this movie explores them all in an original way. THE KISS is a modern comic-melodrama in the true sense... showing 'The Vamp' and 'Don Juan' psychological types in an entertaining and approachable way. It is also a tribute to silent movies, local theater and jail movies. COMMENTS ON PAUL SMITH'S VERSION OF HAFIZ'S 'DIVAN'. "It is not a joke... the English version of ALL the ghazals of Hafiz is a great feat and of paramount importance. I am astonished. If he comes to Iran I will kiss the fingertips that wrote such a masterpiece inspired by the Creator of all." Dr. Mir Mohammad Taghavi (Dr. of Literature) Tehran. "Smith has probably put together the greatest collection of literary facts and history concerning Hafiz." Daniel Ladinsky (Penguin Books author). Paul Smith is a poet, author and translator of over 80 books of Sufi poets of the Persian, Arabic, Urdu, Turkish, Pashtu and other languages, including Hafiz, Sadi, Nizami, Rumi, 'Attar, Sana'i, Jahan, Obeyd Zakani, Nesimi, Kabir, Anvari, Ansari, Jami, Khayyam, Rudaki, and others and poetry, fiction, plays, children's books and a dozen screenplays.