Posted June 24, 2009 by Johan Löfström 0 Thumb-ups

Scene 1
Desert - Day

Sunlight is strong, sand is white and hot. A man walks slowly in the warm desert. Looks tired, worn out. wiping sweat from his forehead. He stops and look at the horizon. He staring at something far away. He sees something that does not go to describe, he is starting to walk against it. It is a small dark cube, perhaps similar to a house? Unclear because of the hot sand and wind.

Scene 2
White Room - Day

In a large, empty, white and bright place, a woman is working. She is dressed in a large white shirt, red tie and has naked legs, brown from sunlight. She cribbles on the walls with colour and writes text in long lines. small ladder is standing at one of the walls? (BRUSH application, or is she only using the fingers?)

Scene 3
Desert - Day

Man comes up against a great, dark square-looking object, a very great book. It shall be at least one metre higher than this man is. On the front is a colourful title/logo: "The Complete Militant feminist Handbook"-" DONT Trust Men, They just want to Cheat on You "
The man takes up a red spraycan/or ink-marker-pen from a pocket in his pants and sprays/writes over the front page text. "Make love note war'. (OR he could write "Fuck" over the words "Cheat on")

Scene 4
White Room - Day

Woman sits down in a corner of the room, where there is some shadow. She will rest and relax, her arms is tired, so her hands just hangs in front of her shirt. Colour is dripping from her fingers, into a little pool on the ground in front of her legs.

Scene 5
Desert - Day

The man wipes sweat from his forehead, and looks up at the sun. He turns with his back against the book, tries to scan the horizon and thinks about what to do. He decides to sit down and rest, and leans against the book.
As he leans down, and tries to sit, the book moves, he accidentally makes the book fall over backwards.

Scene 6
White Room - Day

The woman shouts and reacts when one of the walls are starting to fall in over her. She throws up her arms in a defensive move, to try and hold up the incoming weight of the side of the room.
The wall is falling over her and makes her flat, she is lying on her back, in the middle of the large pages of a big book

Scene 7
Desert - Day

The large book is lying flat on the sand. The man is standing there looking confused, watching two naked legs stick out from the pages. A girl is trapped inside this book, kicking with her legs, screaming something, that is not heard, because the sound is silenced by paper pages over her body.

The man smiles little at the amusing site.
The man is unzipping his pants (blue jeans?)
He is going to take of his pants (close up of hands and button in pants)

Fade to black screen.
Title page with the name of the film.

scene 8
Desert - Day

A man is holding a pair of pants, and spreads them out over two legs, as a protection from the strong sunlight.
He walks around a large book, and takes a grip on the front of the page, to try to lift it up.
He works hard, to open up the heavy pages.
A young woman is crawling out from the trap, rolling away from the book, making angry noises as she falls in the sand beneath the mans feet.
Woman is standing up, shaking out the sand from her clothes and hair. She makes the blue pants into a ball and throws them at the man, that have dropped the front cover of the book down, flat again.
The man just looks at her for a second, picks up his pants, starts to walk away, with the back against the woman.

The woman stands for minutes, watching, thinking, looking down at the book, up against the sun.
She is also starting to walk away, but in another direction.

Scene 9
Desert - evening, it is getting dark

A man and a woman meets in the desert, as it is getting dark.
None of them had walked in a straight line from their meeting by the book.
Zoom out, into a air plane photograph, that shows the foot prints from their walk. The shape of their chosen paths is the form of a heart, that is visible in the sand, from the book, until the place where they are now standing.

Woman says quietly: It's getting dark
Man says: Soon it is going to be very cold.

(perhaps they speak in 2 different languages, so they cannot understand each other??? subtitles that translates for the reader...???)

Scene 10
desert - darkness

A pair is walking fast, jogging, towards the huge book in the sand.
They help each other lifting up the front, flipping the book into the shape of a tent.
One person is ripping out a couple of pages and starts a camp fire.
The other person is folding some pages into sleeping bag and protecting blankets.

Scene 11
Desert - early morning, sun has just come up

The pair wakes up. brings with them folded bookpages, as a protection for the sun, later in the day. walks into horizon.

Scene 12
Day - Oasis in the desert, with some palm trees and a water well.

The pair is walking into an oasis, with paper screens over their heads, so their heads and faces is in shadow.
They walk to the water hole, sees some rusting, old buckets - they have big holes, perhaps from the rust, or from someone shot holes in it with a weapon.
The man and woman is tired, very tirsty, sits down and looks down into the water well. It is far down to the water.
The pair lies down in the shadow of a palm tree, one of them kicks a bucket, that rolls around little in front of them.

Woman says: we shouldn't have left the shelter
Man says: We shouldn't have gone into this desert

They look at each other. man wipes sweat from his face, woman watching around her for ideas. and looks up into the sun, through the leafs of the palm tree.

One person kicks another bucket. They pick up the two buckets and observes them. First bucket has got no bottom, so a persons head is visible through the hole.
Another bucket has got a bottom, but the sides is very rusty, with holes from bullets on every side.
The man and woman looks at each other, and at the buckets, and at the paper they have brought with them.
They start to work, putting two buckets together, with paper in between the layers, to close up the holes.
They walk and lean into the well, trying to find rope. There is only a very short bit hanging there. So the woman takes of her neck tie, and ties it on the bucket and on the rope. the man takes of his pants, ties one leg onto the other end of the rope.
Now they have a bucket with a rope and swings it down the hole in the water well. and pulls up some cool water to drink.
They sees some animals that have come out to stare at them from the distance.
The man is getting a new bucket-full of water from the well, and pours it into a bath-tub that is standing near the well, for the animals to drink from.
The woman and man is walking away from the well to let the suspicious and thirsty animals get to fresh water in the bath-tub.

Scene 13
Desert oasis - small village - afternoon

The man and woman have found a small village street, with some dirty shops and buildings that is quiet , and no visible people near.
they are looking out for a shop with food or a restaurant.
At a zoo-shop there is small rats in the shop-window. In a cage, there are one rat running in a wheel.
Woman says: oh, how cute!

man is looking across the road into the window of a Television shop. On all of the TV:s the MTV is showing a music concert with a rock star that is inside a plastic bubble, rolling on top of the crowd that is standing in front of the stage, at the concert.
The man says: oh, how cuuuute!

the pair walks a bit further and finds an exercise gym, where there are exercise bicycles and running mills. One person is inside the gym, walking on to the running track and starts the machine and starts to jog. Visible in the window, right in front of the man and woman, that starts to laugh at the scene, because of the similarity of the rat in the zoo-shop.

Scene 14
restaurant interior - afternoon

The man and woman is sitting at a table. looking in menus.
a waitress walks up to their table, and writes down what the pair orders to eat.
The waitress has a name tag on the front of her shirt, that shows her name, and the logo of the restaurant, as well as a text: Do Not Tip Waitress!

Scene 15

a waitress is delivering plates of food to the pair at the table. when waitress walks away she is falling at an angle, sideways, and it is visible that the waitress feet is wheels, that run on a rail-way-track in the floor. The waitresses is robots that run in tracks to all the tables.
The woman at the table asks the man: Do you think she is straight?

the pair is talking and eating. and discussing to release the rats from the zoo shop. but they can't decide if the man at the gym deserves the same help.

Scene 16
evening - small street in small town

The pair is walking in the road, talking, having a good time together.
One person is walking onto a wood board to balance on it to cross over a big puddle of dirty water...
the other person is helping with a outreached hand, to help with the balance, so they will not fall and step into the water.
And they continue to walk, holding each other hands...

scene 17

they arrive at a small planted bush, walks on either side of this bush, but holds up the hands in order to continue to walk, with still holding hands, over the bush.
the man is approaching a bench in a small park behind the bush.
The woman is walking in a straight line, so that the man must need to change his path or do something to avoid walking into the bench.
He chooses to step up onto the bench with his feet, and does a jump over the back of the bench. Just not to leave the grip on the womans hand. and as he lands behind the bench, she assists him and helps his landing with a small hug, little bit awkward, but still a small help for him.

scene 18

they come to a lamp post that is turned on its light. the evening is getting dark.
the pair is walking on either side of the lamp post, still holding their hands, so the lamp post is braking their hands and their bodies is turned a little against each other, and makes them pause, in still motion for a second, looking at each other, still holding hands on the side of the lamp post.
(solution? someone is releasing the grip on the hand, and turns shy away?)
(or should it be a kiss?)

scene 19
night - city has become bigger, with noises and traffic somewhere close.

They keep on walking hand in hand, comes to a low grey concrete wall.
they can still hold their hands over the wall, so they walk on either side of the little obstacle for a while.
the wall is starting to grow larger as the pair is walking on each side of it.
the man and woman needs to raise their hand in order to keep having contact.
the noise grows from much heavy traffic. city is getting dirtier around them.
the wall is getting so high that the arms of the woman and man is stretched right up into the sky. closeup of their hands, and zoom out slowly to show that now their feet is hanging in the air.
It is only their hands holding them together, on each side of a big wall. If they would releas their grip, they would fall very far down, and possible get hurt from the high height.

scene 20
closeup of the concrete wall. on the mans side.

The man picks up his spray can from a pocket. Shakes it, sprays a little red heart on the wall in front of him.
The heart is slowly changing shape, it is getting inflated with air, into a red balloon. Slowly, the heart shaped balloon is releasing itself, like it is made of helium and jelly, leaving the concreete wall with a little sound. the man grabs onto the ballooon, tells the woman to also grab onto it, as it is raising the pair over the wall, and makes them sailing into the sky that is full of stars and moon light.
The noises and the dirt from the city is disappearing beneath them.