Original Feature Screenplay by Hibah Jan

1. The Last Child
A screenplay by
Hibah Jan

2. Logline
Carmen returns to her hometown after the death of
her mother. Her traumatic past and absent father
wait for her there. Her only comfort is in her mystical
protector, Nin.

3. Concept
After the death of her mother, Carmon goes to visit her home town
she left over ten years ago when she was only a child. Pain and
horrific memories still remain of the abuse and manipulation of the
people she once considered family.
Though apprehensive, the loss of her mother leaves her alone and
in need of financial help from her father. The only comfort she has
is that she will not be alone, her protective creature, Nin never
leaves her side in times of needs and has looked out for her since
childhood.
Her father, Lubayd, was once a kind and giving man but his alliance
to his family isolated him from his marriage and left him blind to
their lies and deceit.
Over her stay Carmen faces a family she despises, a father she
thought she hated and a world of abusive memories and
flashbacks. Nin can only do so much to shield her from the violent
and painful past.
Carmen and Lubayd lie to one another and hide their true feelings
but in the end with Nin’s guidance helps Lubayd begin to see his
family for who they are and realised the hurt that he has inflicted
on his daughter. The trip allows Carmon to remember more things
then ever before leading her to take action in reopening her case
against the family.
After a big confrontation with her father, on the first day of the
court case Lubayd rebels against his family embracing his child and
standing by her side.

4. Characters

5. Basha Family Tree

6. Carmon Basha
• Age - 19
• A writer illustrator and soon to be junior intern
at a middlebrow publishing house.
• She is ambitious, creative and articulate but her
past makes her often seem a little cold and
secretive.
• Her mother is her inspiration and she misses her
always, this loss feeds into her work.
• Her life is often filled with tasks and activates in
order to battle her ongoing mental health
struggles, but this is a distraction and not always
a solution for her.
• Without the help of Nin, she doesn’t know if
she’s still be alive, she does not credit her life to
herself rather to Nin.

7. Carmon Extended
• A writer with a dark and bewitching style, her thoughts scatter the pages and come out in images
when words cant quite capture her ideas
• Her style is rather in keeping with her upbring in a corner of London enveloped in art, culture and
voices from all walks of life
• Though her fathers side of the family is very well off her mother raised her without that luxury
refusing to let her daughter into the world of the Basha wealth.
• Most of the items she owns are bought second hand or crafter by her mother and their friends.
• She has been taught to be resourceful and sustainable becoming a vegan at age 11.

8. Creature (Nin)
• She is a figure that has followed and protects
Carmon after she found Carmon in the woods and
learnt o the abuse she went through.
• Nin comforts her, providing a safe space and feeling
for Carmon.
• She does not speak a lot but when she does her
words are sweet and song like.
• She has appeared in many of Carmon’s mothers art
pieces and Carmon often draws or doodles her to
calm herself.
• She can not be seem by humans unless she wishes
to revel herself
• Carmon has been her world for so long and Carmon
has been her’s.

9. Larah Humzah Khalif
• Larah was a artist and art teacher
• She was vibrant, loving and adored her
daughter.
• Carmon and her mother lived in London
amongst a bustling art crowd who all loved
them.
• Though not wealthy they got by on favours
from friends.
• She is strong willed and would do anything
to keep her daughter safe.
• She has always regraded marrying into the
Basha family but her time with them made
her more aware of the nature that comes
with greed, power and money.
• Unlike the other women who marry into
the Basha family she refused to take the
family name.

10. Lubayd Basha
• Age – 42
• Lubayd is brilliant with number and tech, though
a little introverted there is a charm to his nature
• He is well loved and one of the only Basha’s who
is not hatted and feared in the company.
• He has a deep anger that he’s never quite got
under control.
• His family controls his life and they are all he
has, but under this necessity to please them is a
want to break always and to be strong enough to
confront them on the past.
• He regrets letting his family push his wife and
child away but most of all he hates how he did
nothing to stop it

11. Suleiman Basha
• Age - 21
• Carmon’s cousin and one of her closest
friends.
• He is in his second year of university studying
a degree that his family choice and that will
lead him into the family’s business.
• Though he does not like his degree he enjoys
being in London in term time, away from his
family and close to Carmon.
• He is an avid reader and often edits and reads
over Carmon’s work for her.
• This friendship is kept a secret as his family
would no approach because of their dislike for
Carmon and her mother .

12. Sara Bashas (Sarah)
• Age - 49
• The second in command in the Basha
family and business
• A fierce and powerful women with a
particular like for power and manipulation
• She takes pried in the family name and will
get her hands dirty keeping them at the
top
• She can be rather charismatic but she
prefers using her power to get her where
she wants to be rather then her charm.
• She raised her children with the same
values and she will keep the all the family
children in place when it comes to
teaching them about the Basha ways and
codes.

13. Khalid Basha
• Age – 45
• The eldest Bahsa son
• A lover of the high life, known for his wild lifestyle
and frivolous spending
• He works in the family company but his title and
position mean he often throws his work onto those
lower then him
• He is close with his father who enjoys his sons
energy and finds his lifestyle a reflection of how
powerful the family has become
• He is married and has one son (Basha) and a
daughter who has two children
• Though he is married he often indulges in a
few relations outside of his marriage bed
• Deep down he is more sensitive to his family's
wrong doings then he lets on but he feels as
though he could never make up for them so he
doesn’t try to do any better

14. Raheema Basha
• Age – 40
• Once married and made a widow after her
husband died a few years back
• She morns him and misses him, his death
sending her into depression
• With the promises of grand parties and gals
in his honour her sister gets her out of her
depression
• She is known for these events and charity gals
• When married the her husband she would do
everything and anything in her power to
please him but he was a man with requests
only a family like the Basha’s could cover up

15. Faisal Basha
• Age – 32
• The youngest son
• He is smart and full of new ideas for the Basha
business but he is stationed lower in the family
and company because of a decision
• When he married his wife he went against his
fathers wishes and his siblings by choosing a
wife not approved by his father.
• Despite this and his want to be a more
important party in the Basha life he is happily
married and has two children.
• He is not exempt from the Basha ways, he can
be cruel and will do anything his family says

16. Tobias Basha
• Age – 72
• The head of the family and business
• A feared man with power, wealth and
fiercely loyal children
• He can be charismatic and charming
when needed but with his power comes
the ability to manipulate, torment and
lead without the niceties
• He holds his bussness and his children's
like proud trophies
• He likes having the power to choose his
children's life but when they go against
him he rather play with their mind then
outright tell them they have
disappointed him
• He still hold over his sons, Faisal,
marriage and Lubayd’s divorce over
them

17. Farah Basha
• Age – 70
• She is still very much in love with her
husband, but she knows his ways and finds
him to be one of the most ugly people she
has ever met, yet she remains loyal
• Wealth has not soiled her as she sees it has
her family, though she indulges in it’s
pleasures she has remained a kind and loving
mother
• She has a soft spot of Lubayd and Carom and
she also got along with Larah, finding her
rejection of the family wealth refreshing
compared to her other children's partners
• She has never wanted any involvement in the
business thinking if she does not know of the
corruption she will not feel its shame but she
does feel this shame in the family secrets
that fill the Basha’s with darkness.

18. London
Apartment
• Carmon moved into the London flat with her mother at age 7
• The rent was cheap because her mother’s friend was the
landlord
• After her mothers death Carmon can not afford the flat
• It is much like her artsy mother, bright, lively and home
• Plants fill the space, the walls are covered with art, books and
Knick knacks

19. Home town house
• When Carmon was younger she lived with her father and
mother in a three bedroom home.
• It was dated but well kept and once warm with fond memories
but when she returns she sees how cold and empty is become.
• Lubayd still lives here alone, haunted by the spaces that could
have been occupied by his wife and daughter.

20. London Aesthetic
• Busy streets
• Rainy paths with warm light
• Loud and bright
• Vibrant and alive with characters from all
around
• Flats and apartments
• Markets
• Cluttered books shops
• Warm dark oak coffee shops
• Trains and tubes filled on a Friday night

21. Hometown Aesthetic
• Cobbled streets and ivy clad buildings
• Quite streets and rural landscapes
• Detached houses with large lands
attached
• Wealth and secrecy hidden in history
• An apparent class divide
• Large manners and country clubs take up
the rest of the space while the small
working class population remain huddled
in hidden corners

22. The Basha Estate
• The Basha grounds are large and vast.
• In the middle sits the main manor, a large mansion where the
heads of the family, Tobias and Farah, live.
• There are large manors for each of the Basha children (five in
total), these houses have their own private gardens and roads
separating them up.
• The estate also holds two small ground keepers and works
cottages.
• The Estate is surrounded by large forest land.

23. Concept art

24. Aesthetic Inspiration
• Dark Academia
• Fantasy Indian art
• Deep reds
• Nature
• Old money/corruption/greed