Into the Sun

By
Emma McAdam
INT. BEDROOM - DAY
EMMA, 17, in pajamas, bounces her leg up and down while her
desk chair swivels.

Her heart pounds as she struggles to take deep breaths.

She attempts to write but scratches it out on the page.
She shoves her chair away from the desk and drops her head
to her hands.

EXT. BACKYARD - DAY

Emma’s hands shake as she wraps her hands in cloth.
She steps up to the punching bag, her feet shift and she
brings her hands up to her face.
She lands the first punch square in the center of the bag.
INSERT: Emma stands in the darkness.

She pulls back and closes her eyes for a moment.

Her feet shift as she lands another two hits on the bag.
INSERT: Emma stands in the darkness.

Emma hits the bag harder and harder.

INSERT: Emma stands in the darkness
Her hand lands wrong on the bag and twists.

She pulls back and clutches her wrist then walks back into
the house.
INT. BATHROOM - DAY

Emma stares at her reflection and the reflection stares

back.
She picks up her brush and begins to brush her hair, but her
reflection does not move.

She moves the brush through her hair faster and faster but
the reflection never changes.
Her face contorts with pain as she rips the brush through
her hair.

Nothing changes in the mirror, the reflection remains stoic.

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She takes a deep sigh and puts it into a messy bun.

INT. BEDROOM - NIGHT
The glow from the screen illuminates Emma’s face as she
continues to scroll and scroll on her phone.

She slowly blinks her eyes closed and drops her phone.
EXT. FIELD - DAY

Emma opens her eyes in a bright field.

She walks through nature and takes in the scenery.
She tilts her face up towards the sun as it shines on her
face.

INT. BEDROOM - SUNRISE

She blinks her eyes open and stares into her room.
Emma lets out a sigh and looks at the door to her room.

(INSERT) The bedroom door in the background, the phone in

the foreground.
She tries to get out of bed but hands hold her down.

She struggles and kicks her legs against the legs but they
do not let go.
She flops back onto the bed and sighs in frustration.
Emma picks up her phone and begins to scroll.

INT. BEDROOM - DAY

Emma looks from her phone to her laptop on the desk,
She sighs and moves from her bed and sits at her desk to do
homework.
She chews on the tip of her pen, then her eyes begin to
drift off.
She stops chewing on the pen and stares off into space while
her face becomes blank.
She attempts to pick up the pen and write, but cannot focus
on the paper.

She throws the pen down onto the table and grabs her phone.
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INT. BEDROOM - NIGHT

Emma’s eyes blink closed once again as she drifts off to
sleep.
INT. DARK ROOM - NIGHT

Emma opens up her eyes in a room filled with nothing but

darkness.
She sees herself walk through the field.

Emma in the field looks directly at Emma who is in the

darkness.
She reaches her hand out from the dream world towards Emma
in the darkness.

Emma gasps in shock and struggles to decide what to do.

The hand from the dream world falls and Emma hangs her head
in disappointment.

INT. BEDROOM - DAY

Emma’s eyes open wide.
She takes a deep breath and tries to push herself out of bed
but the hands have her feet.

She kicks and kicks until finally the hands release.

She shoots up then glances back at her bed and releases a
sigh of release.

INT. BATHROOM - DAY

Emma steps into the bathroom and looks at her reflection.
It remains still the whole time she is in the bathroom.

Emma throws water and the mirror and leans against the
counter.
She storms out of the bathroom.
INT. LIVING ROOM - DAY

Emma rushes through the house towards her car.

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INT. CAR - DAY

Emma sits in her car and holds her head in her hands.
She slams her hands against the wheel and puts the key in
the ignition.

EXT. LOOK OUT POINT - DAY

Emma turns her car off and stares out at the view.

All of a sudden she screams at the top of her lungs.

She gets out of the car and slams the door.
She slides against her car door and onto the ground.

Her face turns toward the sun then she picks herself up and
off the ground.
She walks out toward a look out and cries as she faces the
sun.

INT. BEDROOM - SUNRISE

Emma opens her eyes.
CUT TO BLACK.