The document summarizes the plot of a film. It begins by showing a mother grieving the loss of her daughter. The film then focuses on the happy family life of the Miles family, until the mother's other daughter, Mollie, is abducted from her school. The story follows the family as they cope with Mollie's kidnapping. Eventually, Mollie's body is believed to be found, though it turns out to not be her. Clues lead the police to discover that Mollie was taken and hidden by a woman who wanted a child of her own. In the end, Mollie is returned safely to her family.

1. The Rest of the Film
It is important for me to know what the rest of the film is going to be like, so that I can use
this to my advantage in my film opening. I want to instigate clues in the opening as to what
the audience is about to watch, therefore I have looked into this in a lot of detail.
The beginning of the film shows events that happen in the beginning of the film – to give the
audience an insight into what is about to happen. It is clear that the mother is very
depressed over something; there are flowers, teddy bears and cards everywhere instigating
that something bad has happened. The audience are then told that there is a case about
Helen’s daughter/Lucy’s sister, and that the police have found a body.
The film focuses around the family life of the Miles’. They are a normal family with their
regular family problems, but are generally very happy. They are preparing for an upcoming
family holiday to Spain, and are very excited. Everything seems to be going on like a regular
family. However, one day, Helen has to rush into work for an important meeting, and asks
Lucy to drop Mollie at school on her way, as they are around the corner from each other.
The whole way, Lucy feels like someone is watching her. She calls her mum to say that she
thinks someone is following her, but she doesn’t answer so she leaves a voicemail. They
rush on, and the audience see that there is definitely someone following the girls. Then all
of the sudden, a man grabs both of the girls by the arm and tries to pull them into a van. He
gets Mollie into the van and one of their mums friends see the man trying to abduct Lucy
and screams for him to stops. He slams the door shut and drives away without taking Lucy.
Helen reads the voicemail and begins to get very worried, she tries calling Lucy and there is
no answer. She immediately leaves the meeting and rushes to the school. On her way, she is
getting a call from the head master and she is told that she has to come down immediately
as there has been an incident with Mollie. When she gets there, she is told of the events and
immediately begins to blame herself.
Key:
Helen Miles = Mother
Lucy Miles = Daughter
Mollie Miles = Missing daughter
James Miles = Father (although
not seen in filmopening)

2. The story then focuses around the case of Mollies kidnap and what has happened to her. It
shows how the family are coping with what has happened. The mum has been diagnosed
with severe depression and she is turning in on herself, constantly blaming herself and not
being able to forget about what happened that day. She doesn’t want to go to work
anymore so she can look after Lucy, and pushes her husband away due to constant arguing
and financial difficulties, and eventually they have to split up.
Then we get to the part of the film we see in the opening, where the detective says that
there has been a body found. They had investigated the place that the body was found and
found lots of clues to suggest it was Mollie’s body. However when Helen goes to identify the
body, it isn’t Mollies. Although what she has seen was horrific, it wasn’t her daughter. The
clues however help identify the man who took her. They uncover that he was working with
someone else, and they wanted to keep Mollie for themselves. When they turned up at
their house, they found her locked in a cupboard. The woman says that she just wanted her
own child, and had to hide her from her husband in case he killed her. Mollie is returned to
her family.