In the film — which a synopsis says is about a traveling theater troupe that tempts its audiences with the chance to "transcend mundane reality by passing through a magical mirror into a fantastic universe of limitless imagination" — Mr. Ledger was playing a character who is transported into three separate dimensions.
His greatest work is the Hexapla, which is a synopsis of six versions of the Old Testament.
I found two documents entitled "Death of an Owl: Synopsis", which at first, maddeningly, I couldn't open.
Yet it was paid for by the government's Housing Market Renewal Partnerships - which agreed the synopsis - to boost the controversial Pathfinder housing policy.
Publishers typically provide the designer with a tip sheet which includes a synopsis as well as marketing information, similar titles from other authors, sales from an author's previous books and other information the publisher uses to sell the book.
Before seeing it at this year's Cannes film festival, the Guardian film team joked that the synopsis, which was supplied by Loach's regular screenwriter Paul Laverty, sounded like something that would be coughed out of a Ken Loach Random Plot Generator.
Producing studio Universal have released a plot synopsis which reveals that McConaughey will voice a "dapper koala" who organises a singing competition featuring, among others, a mouse (Seth MacFarlane) and a "punk-rock porcupine" (Scarlett Johansson).
Then I write a very detailed synopsis which can be up to 25,000 words long.
This unwieldy synopsis, which disregards various other narrative strands, is symptomatic of the problem of "Closely Related Keys".
With it, they released a picture of the book's cover and a short synopsis, which described the book as focusing on a middle-aged Clay, now a screenwriter, drawn back into his old circle.
