Opening scene -Our 7th Generation-
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THE NATURE WITHIN.
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THE TRUTH OF HER BEING
EXT. NORTHERN, MN. - DUSK
Flying over the country side, river appears with flowing veins cast throughout. Matching transition to veins in the human body. Following the flow of the veins of the human body to the heart. Matching transition to the earth. From the earth we zoom into a tree in a field. Time lapsing the growth of the tree from a seedling to root system, to branches. Matching back to the river from root system of the tree. Matching back to the blood veins, following the flow we end back at the heart. This time it’s beating fast.
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INT. LIVING ROOM - DUSK
TRANSITION TO BLACK AND WHITE.
Zooming out to reveal the heart of a little girl in the corner of a room.
Reveling black smoke whirling around the room, mom and dad fighting on the floor, room is very dischuffed, dad is on top of mom beating her.
Sage (9) gets up, run’s to the kitchen and grab’s a cast iron frying pan.
The background is reveling her father holding her mother down, repeatedly hitting her. Sage breaks the cast iron frying pan over her father head from repeated blows. She gets hit across the room from her father. He stops, gets up, move’s to the couch and sits down looking off into nowhere. One little bead of blood comes from the side of his mouth. Mom, beat up, crawls over to him, yelling at Sage.
MOM (37)
What have you done?
Sage, immediately gets up and runs for the door.
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EXT. OVERHEAD BACK YARD - DUSK
Sage runs out the decrepit back porch. Jumping from a broken staircase. A scroungy mut appears from under the porch joining the excitement of her running away.
The yard is scattered with small drafts of snow and misc. junk strewn about. Sage is crying and obviously been beat. Cloths resembling those of hand-me-downs that are torn and a little to large for her small frame.
Dog in tow, she heads towards the darkness of the forest. Mut barking all the way.
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Running though the woods as fast as those little legs can take her, she stops to catch her breath. Looking back at the house a small memory hits, her face drops. One tear swells and falls from her eye. In that tear we see a brief memory of what just happen. Dad hitting mom and mom yelling at Sage.
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Head quickly turns and she runs deeper into the forest. It gets darker and darker the further she runs.
Sun is setting over the horizon, showing the depth of the forest. Small rays of light show through the snow as it begins to fall. Large flakes cover the tracks behind her.
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She begins to slow, hard breath and fear settle in.
Dropping to her knees. Dog comes up to console what is left of this poor little child.
One word comes from her mouth as she is knelt on the ground snow falling all around her, lifting her head ever so slightly.
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SAGE
Please!
Looking up, her eyes catch one single snow flake as it falls from the sky. Watching it intently (slowly transition to color) the flake hits a small ray of light coming from the sun only to let out one little colorful twinkle. (slowly fade back to black and white) Following the path of that flake, her head drops as the flake hits the ground.
She looks up for a moment only to realize she has no idea of where she is, fear sets in, she begins to cry. Looking up to the trees that surround her she yells as her face drops.
SAGE
Help, please help me!
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