1: FADE IN.

EXT. JANE'S APARTMENT - DAY

1a: FOREGROUND OUT OF FOCUS; FOCUS ON BACKGROUND: Camera
moves toward window on second floor of an old, brick
apartment's wall. (FOREGROUND) excavator coming from the
right side of frame moving construction waste to trash bin.
Camera continues to moves toward the window. Camera moves
through the window, now sees a dim-lighted hallway.
*SHOT 1A CONTINUES WITH SHOT 2
INT. JANE'S MOM APARTMENT - DAY
2: CAMERA FLOWS passes trash bag throws through A NARROW,
DARK HALLWAY TO JANE'S€ STUDIO APARTMENT. Some Trash Bag
falls to the side, trash inside falls out :
€ JANE'S apartment door is opened. Revealing JANE, 30,
skinny and short, in her almost emptied apartment (only left
with an old, 2 shelves wooden book case [a dusty box on
there] in front of window; On right corner of room, there is
an old, dark brown, wooden bed frame at another corner of
the room). She is (facing backward) throwing trash to her
side.
2i: a photo falls out of the box
2ii: CU on photo falls out: Little Jane,3, holds a new
fluffed rabbit doll in the arm.€
Foot step approaching
Hears a knock on the door offscreen.
3: SECURITY GUARD (shows only his back), skinny, same height
as JANE, comes in from left side of frame, knocks on the
door on his left side.€
3a: JANE turns around.
3b: Jane turns off the radio.
3c: SECURITY GUARD speaks.
SECURITY GUARD
They're gonna close this building
down pretty soon. You should leave
now if you are done packing.
JANE
Yea I am just digging through the
last of my mom's stuff.
JANE nods.
SECURITY GUARD
By the way...I am sorry to hear
 about her. If there's anything I
can do-

JANE
No. I'm fine. We weren't that close
anyway.
€

BEAT.
SECURITY GUARD (awkward), look at the box.
SECURITY GUARD (CONT'D)
Don't forget that box.
JANE turns to look at the box too, and turns back to
SECURITY GUARD.
JANE
Oh.. just some of our old pictures,
they are all messed up anyway.
4: Sees box, filled with decayed photos (LITTLE JANE, 3,
holds a new, fluffed rabbit doll [same one from the box] in
her arm ) , on the case.
SECURITY GUARD
Alright then..I am gonna check on
the other units, Just don't take
too long. I gotta lock this place
down.
Hears shutting door sound offscreen.€
EXT. JANE'S MOM APARTMENT - DAY
4c: Sees JANE coming out from the apartment building in
BACKGROUND. Excavator continues to pour construction waste
into the dumpster (recycle bin next to dumpster) in
FOREGROUND.
4e: Tilt up to the gloomy sky
6: TITLE: THE CYCLE stamped on the gloomy sky.
EXT. BUSINESS DISTRICT - DAY
9: Camera tilt down: Couple of buses and cars passes by in
front of JANE and people next to her (left side of the
frame). In each gap of cars passing,smog coming out of the
cars, sees they stop at the crosswalk, waiting for the light
to turn.
10b: JANE carelessly looking around. Doll ear twisted a bit
10bii: The ear caught JANE's attention. JANE turns to trash
can, nothing's there.
15: Traffic light now turns green.
15a: Sees JANE slowly crossing the street, still with
questioned expression among other people who are walking.
EXT. JANE'S BUILDING - DAY
19: JANE walks inside as the building's sliding door closes
behind her. The building sign: Urban Renewal Authority
street no: 2046
INT. CUBICLE -DAY
25: JANE puts down the coffee cup (underneath a circular
mirror). Phone rings and JANE goes to table offscreen.
26: Sees smoke from coffee cup is rising up.
27: PANS UP FROM COFFEE CUP: Sees the smoke is framing
around the mirror, which forms a skull figure from the
reflection in the mirror (clock and JANE putting on earpiece
as the eyes; the chair as nose; and binders underneath the
mirror as the teeth).
28: JANE picks up the phone.
JANE
Urban Renewal Authority. This is
Jane.
MR. FERGUSON (guy, around 60s), is heard.
MR. FERGUSON
Janie...Janie, it's Mr.FERGUSON You
have to save our building...
28bi: Rear of Jane with 5 posters above her desk (dialogues
continues)
28c: Shows petition letters on right side of desk.
(Dialogues keep continuing)
MR. FERGUSON (CONT'D)
I have written so many petition
letters....They never
respond...Janie, you can tell them
to hold off, can't you?

28ci: Jane annoyed.

JANE
Calm down, Mr. FERGUSON...we
already came to an agreement in the
last meeting.You will get enough
compensation for a new apartment.
Beat.
MR. FERGUSON
I have been living there my whole
life...You... you grew up there
too. Janie. How could you be so
indifferent?
MR. FERGUSON hangs up the phone before JANE could reply.
Loud phone hang up noise,beeeep.
28e: CA to petition letters (sound of Jane putting down
phone)
34a: JANE, annoyed, throws all the letters on desk to the
trash can.
34b: She tries to push the letters into the overloaded trash
can, even more annoyed.
JANE
ARUGHHH!!!

35: JANE approaches trash can and take out trash.

INT. OFFICE KITCHEN - DAY
36: JANE walks in kitchen.
The office kitchen is dim-lighted. There's several trash
bags, a small refrigerator, a small rounded desk next to
refrigerator, and a metal door mounted on the wall for
collecting of trash throughout the building.
37: JANE pulls the door open. She tries to fit the trash bag
in, but can't. The trash bag is twice her size.
38: She pushes€ harder.
39: JANE pushes even harder.
40: JANE exhausted, catching her breath.
42: She pushes harder, trash bag and her hands go through
the door.
43: JANE trips, both feet off the ground,
44: Sees JANE falls into the door.
45: POV OUTSIDE THE METAL DOOR:
Jane holds one hand up, tries to grasp onto something.
Trash falls out of the trash bag shattering around her.
EXT. TRASH PIT -DAY
46: FADE IN
47: JANE POV:
€€ JANE opens her eyes, gloomy sky becomes clear.
48: She finds herself within a gigantic pit of trash bag.
End of JANE POV.
JANE
Where am I ?
49: Sees JANE in a gigantic trash bag pit
JANE
Hello? Anybody hear me? (Echoing)
50: JANE tries to swim among trash bags.
51: JANE looks up,€ she sees a LIVE TRASH BAG sitting among
the piles of trash bags.€
52a: alive trash bag digging through the trash bag.
52b: JANE shocked, trash bag drops behind here. JANE looks
up.
52c: Sky has hole, trash bag coming down.
52d: WS JANE running to L
52e: WS of ladder
54a: JANE half way on the ladder
55: JANE reaching to the top of the ladder inside pit.
55a: see long ladder through fog
56: She climbs down the ladder.
EXT. EMPTY CITY STREET - DAY
57: JANE walks down the ladder. Confused. She moves forward.
59: JANE walks empty streets through the old buildings,
observing.An old rabbit doll (the one Jane threw away)
sitting on the right side of the street. A trash bag on the
left side of the street.
62: Sees trash bags on the side of street coming alive,
becomes LIVE TRASH BAGS. Face is formed (skull-like). They
are forming into a hunch back looking. They start chasing
JANE.
62a: DOLL (same old rabbit doll from the apartment), torn,
saggy body, sitting on the right side of the street, turns
to look at JANE who's walking down the street. He gets up.
64: DOLL, rabbit-looking, torn, saggy body, runs toward
JANE.
DOLL
Quick!
65: (CU on DOLL grabs JANE's hand, though JANE resists bit
and want to step back.
JANE
(Gasp) Who are you? Where are we
going?
But DOLL pulls her away and starts running.
DOLL
Run! I will explain later!
66: DOLL and JANE run along the street.
67: JANE looks back while they are running away. The LIVE
TRASH BAGS chase after JANE and DOLL.€
EXT. NARROW ALLEY WAY - DAY
69: DOLL drags JANE to turn to the corner to a narrow alley
between old buildings. Trash bags on the side.
70: They both are running in the narrow alley.
71: DOLL tears down trash bag (trash revealing out), and
throw behind them.
72: LIVE TRASH BAGS that are chasing them, now are
distracted by the trash that DOLL threw. They stop chasing
and dig through the trash.
73: At the end of the narrow alley, comes to another cross
street.€
EXT. EMPTY CITY STREET - DAY
74: DOLL and JANE exits the other end of the alley. They
come to the cross street, finally stop. DOLL turns around to
JANE.€
75:
€DOLL
We're safe here...as long as they
have trash to dig through, they
won't bother us.
76:
JANE
WHAT IS THIS PLACE?€ I was throwing
trash out, and the next thing I
knew, I was... HERE.
77: DOLL and JANE walk along the street (toward the trash
bag pit direction), sees along street there are many LIVE
TRASH BAGS on the side.
78: Sees both of them walking.
DOLL
You are in the in-between...
JANE
Between what?
DOLL
The earth and the wasteland
(whisper "wasteland").

JANE
And...and what are those...trash
bags?
DOLL
They were actually bags of trash
you humans threw away. They come to
look like that after some years
down here.
79:LIVE TRASH BAG (on the street where JANE and DOLL are
standing) holds a milk carton. LIVE TRASH BAG sucks in the
memories of the trashes ( the floating lights), then eats
the milk carton. After LIVE TRASH BAG ate milk carton, an
image is projected behind its head.
80: Shows the image a blurred mother figure pouring milk
from the carton to a blurred boy's figure's bowl.
81:
JANE
Wait...WHAT?
82: Shows another LIVE TRASH BAG holding a ring (ring is
surrounded by a few floating lights). THE LIVE TRASH BAG
swallow down the floating lights, then eat the ring.€
projects an image behind its head. DOLL's voice offscreen.
DOLL
They suck in memories that they
found in human trash.
83: Shows the projected image behind the LIVE TRASH BAG
shows two blurred figures (one figure opens a ring case, the
other figure hugs the first figure).
JANE
Wait, memories? How can they suck
in memories?
DOLL
 Look you see that? That's a memory.
Every object down here has
forgotten memories trapped inside
of them.
87a:
JANE
But.. WHY AM I here in the first
place?
88:
DOLL
It might be... a last calling of
something you threw away...€
Once you remembered what you left
behind here, then you will be free
to go back.
OFFSCREEN. Suddenly loud opening trash pit door noise
echoing throughout the city.

91: DOLL and JANE turn around to see the trash bag pit.
EXT. TRASH PIT -DAY
91a: The high-striker like scale on the side of the pit
reaches its top. The sign on it says: "Overloading:
initiating dump cycle"
92: Sees Trash bags falling down quickly, and a huge force
sucking trash bags down. LIVE TRASH BAGS on the side of pit
is torn apart (exploding into pieces of trash).
EXT. EMPTY CITY STREET-DAY
93:
DOLL(TO JANE)
No...The trash pit is emptying
itself...run.
Sees JANE and DOLL running among LIVE TRASH BAGS to the
opposite direction of the street. The force of suction
rapidly picks up many LIVE TRASH BAGS, trash bags behind
JANE and DOLL. Both of them are then also picked up by the
force.
93a: side view of JANE and DOLL flying up.
INT. TRASH BAG PIT HOLE
95: SLOW MOTION: JANE and DOLL falling among other trash.
EXT. LANDFILL - DAY
96: JANE and DOLL gets up from the ground of landfill. Shows
mounts of undefinable trash in the foreground. Dusty air.
Hear people speaking, arguing, crying,and laughing in the
air. But no one is around. Trash and pictures still falling
down from the hole.
97:
Jane getting up.
JANE
Ugh...
DOLL nods.
DOLL
..the Wasteland.
JANE
What is that means?
DOLL
I...I don't know .
JANE
Great.
JANE walks offscreen to left.
97a: Camera follows DOLL to the right. A LIVE TRASH BAG
falls in front of doll.
97b: DOLL watches the LIVED TRASH BAG. A floating light
comes out of its mouth, and flies offscreen. LIVE TRASH BAG
chase the floating light. Camera boom up, reveals the
incinerator.
97c: WS of incinerator. floating lights flies into the
incinerator. The LIVE TRASH BAG chasing it, runs into frame.
LIVE TRASH BAG goes into incinerator.€
97d:MS on chimney, floating lights realizes from the LIVE
TRASH BAG.The floating lights comes out of the chimney.€
€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€
97e: CU on DOLL expression.
98: JANE, standing at the shore of the landfill island,
looks toward the ocean.
JANE
somebody tell me what I forgot...I
want to get out of here.
99: Sees an dirty ocean (dirt color) , with trash floating.
100: JANE looks down to notice a familiar picture at the
shoreline of the island. She picks it up.
101: Sees a decayed photo: On the photo is€ LITTLE JANE,3,€
holding the rabbit doll (DOLL) -> same one as the one from
the apartment's box of photos.
102:
offscreen firework noise
DOLL
Janie, Look over here!
JANE turns around. Sees DOLL walks closer toward the
incinerator.
EXT. INCINERATOR - DAY
103: DOLL walks toward the opened door of the incinerator.
He stops at the front of door.
104: Thru door: Sees 3 fireplaces interior, burning trash.
107: He then turns to look at JANE (who is also looking at
him), in the far distance.
DOLL
Look... I think I found a way to
get you out.
He turns to look at incinerator. then turns back to JANE.
DOLL
I guess this is goodbye now.
DOLL smiles, turns around and begin walking inside the
incinerator.
110:
JANE
Wait!What are you doing?
JANE looks at incinerator.
111: Sees black smoke coming out from chimney of
incinerator.
JANE, knowing what DOLL is going to do, immediately runs
toward to the incinerator.
JANE
Don't go in there!
112: She trips over and falls on the ground. She gets back
up and runs toward to the incinerator.
113:€ DOLL goes in, floating lights particles comes off from
his body.
When JANE approached to the door. It is too late, door
closing, only see through the gap between the closing door:
DOLL walking toward a fireplace.€ Door closes.
JANE, uncertained what to do now that she is alone, looks
around the landfill. Scared.
EXT. LANDFILL - DAY
JANE runs toward to the edge of the island.
115: Sees she looks to the left, right, and up, worried.
Sees a group of floating lights , shape of DOLL, comes out
from chimney of incinerator.
EXT. INCINERATOR - DAY
116: Follows FLOATING LIGHTS DOLL moving toward JANE.
116a: CU on Jane's boot, floating lights slowly come out of
the pieces of broken trash in landfill.
117: FLOATING LIGHTS DOLL wraps around JANE's hand. He lifts
her up to the air. Other floating ligths fly up with them.
118: FLOATING LIGHTS DOLL and JANE in air.
DOLL
Janie, even though you throw me
away, the happy memory I had with
you never changed. Our memories are
what kept me alive down here all
this year. But now I think you need
our memories more that I do.

EXT. BUSINESS DISTRICT - DAY

119: FADE IN
120: Sees JANE zones back in.
121: She stands on the side of crosswalk (waiting for the
light to turn), crowded with people behind her.
130:€ JANE remembers that her box of photos that are left
behind in the apartment. She whispers.
€JANE
The photos....
131: JANE turns around, pushes her way out of the crowd, and
runs out.
132: FOLLOW SHOT: JANE runs back to her old apartment.
EXT. JANE'S MOM APARTMENT BUILDING - DAY
132a: JANE continues running pass old buildings.
133: WS She runs toward her apartment, where caution tape is
surrounding her apartments block. The apartment begins to
collapses.
133a: MS rear Dust coming at JANE, she covers her face.
133b: MCU JANE shocked expression.
133c: WS building collapsing, a photo flies out of the
building.
133d: CU on JANE's boots. Photo lands in front of her feet.
133e: MCU JANE bends down
133f:CU JANE's hand holding a photo: LITTLE JANE, 3, holding
DOLL.
133g: CU on JANE, embraces the photo. Her eyes not shown,
but tears drops down her face.
FADE OUT