1. Plot of short film:
A man investigates a break-in to his own flat. However, he encounters many
psychological obstacles.
Part one: (Colour – desaturated)
Shot panning up from kitchen floor reveals the back of the protagonist holding
his arm, which is bleeding heavily. The protagonist hears a young boy standing
behind him.
Boy: What did you do to my mummy?...
Protagonist: What I had to…
Boy: Who are you?
Protagonist: Nobody.
The next part of the sequence is a flashback.
Part two: (Flashback - B&W)
Protagonist walks through a door into an assumed to be a broken into house. He
taps on the wall to make sure no one is home and picks up a stashed weapon
implying this is his home. He searches the corridor with his weapon, and slowly
walks through the corridor walking over smashed glass and objects. He sees a
hanging body at the end of the hallway. However, the protagonist is distracted by
his reflection in the bathroom mirror.
He walks into the bathroom and the door slowly closes behind him. He is startled
by the noise of the door and looks back, he then looks forward at the mirror and
sees a bloodied version of himself. The protagonist looks down at his hands to
see they are covered in blood. A sequence of hallucinations will be shown such as
bloody writings on the walls, blood spilling into the sink plughole, someone
standing behind a shower curtain, etc.
The protagonist is snapped out of his hallucination by a knock on the bathroom
door. He turns around and slowly opens the door. He checks to his right in the
hallway and sees that the hangman has disappeared and only the rope is seen.
Shot of protagonists face with figure standing behind him. He slowly turns
around and sees the hangman standing there preparing to take his hood off. The
protagonist wipes his eyes and the figure is gone.
The character enters the living room to continue searching the house. He goes to
the kitchen and puts his gun down on the side. He hears music coming from the
living room corridor; he picks up a kitchen knife and walks out of the kitchen and
slowly approaches the radio. He reaches out for the radio and is attacked and
overpowered by a woman. She falls on top of him and they struggle. The
protagonist tries to reach for his knife. Instead he rolls over on top of the woman
and strangles her. Someone watches from under the table (young boy). The
protagonist stands up and walks away, the shot fades out with music.
2. Flashback ends.
Part three: Resumes to present time (Part one) (Colour – desaturated)
He hears overwhelming sounds of voices and whispering in his ear, which is
interrupted by the boy.
Boy: You killed her didn’t you!
He looks back at the boy and he is gone. He is confused about whether or not it
was a hallucination. He remains confused and follows after the boy, but he is
gone. The protagonist sees something on the side of the fridge before leaving the
kitchen. He is shocked and confused by what he has seen. He slowly walks out
and sees the body on the living room floor. A picture on the fridge is revealed,
which shows the protagonist with his son and wife, who has just murdered. He
approaches the body looking at her face and kneels down next to her. Flashback
scene of him and his wife. Cuts back to him kneeling next to the body.
He looks up and sees the hooded figure again. The figure takes off the hood and it
is revealed to be the protagonist. The figure is holding rope. The protagonist
stands on a chair and hangs himself. The small boy is then seen leaving the house
through the front door that has been left open.
