synopsis - definition of synopsis from BusinessDictionary.com: Brief condensation, outline, or summary of the main points of an articles, book, or plan. Unlike an abstract, a synopsis maintains the point by point sequence of the salient ideas.
A synopsis is the summary of the plot of another work. It tends to list the
events in the order in which they were written, and is much shorter than the
work it is summarizing.
An Australian tourist is fighting for his life in an Athens hospital after a confrontation with bouncers at a nightclub on the Greek holiday island of Mykonos.