Script
Illumination
By Liz Crow
October 2006
EXT. PLAYGROUND
A group of CHILDREN runs, skips and jumps through the playground, with balls, skipping ropes and hoops. Each wears trainers which flash as their feet hit the tarmac.
TITLE: ILLUMINATION
INT. KITCHEN
NELL, aged five, tries to catch her MOTHER’s attention as her mother moves to and fro around her in the kitchen. Her mother is busy multi-taking – washing up, cooking, reaching down jars from shelves, etc. Nell rotates with her mother’s movement.
NELL
Pleeease…
MOTHER
Sweetheart, I’ve just bought you those ones…
NELL
But Mummee-, I need some. Everyone else…
MOTHER
Darling, those are perfectly good trainers. Now when you’ve grown out of them, we’ll see. But for now, the answer – is no…
