scenario

noun

1 Walt wrote scenarios for a major Hollywood studio:

plot, outline, storyline, framework, structure, scheme, plan, layout;

screenplay, script;

synopsis, summary, precis;

technical schema;

rare diegesis.

2 every possible scenario must be explored:

sequence of events, course of events, chain of events, series of developments, situation.

3 this film has a more contemporary scenario:

setting, background, context, scene, milieu.