New script first pass

The scene begins with a flashback sequence: a child is standing, peering in to an open plan room. The room is lined with shelves and shelves of music books, various instruments scattered across the floor on stands and hung on the walls. Windows tightly latched shut with dust covering the surfaces a floating through the air, becoming visible in the sunlight shining through. The light reflects off of a grand piano in the middle of the room causing the black piano to look white. An elderly man is sitting at the grand piano playing a piece music. The child looks out across this scene and causes the door to creak. The man stops playing and looks up. He walks over to the child and takes her hand walking her over to the piano lifting her onto the stool alongside him. He places the girl’s hands on the keys and starts to play with the girl, playing notes every now and then with him.

The scene then cuts to her running to the terminal as a young adult. She gets to the gate, is visibly tired and the air hostess can’t let her in. Disheartened she walks away from the gate and towards the window and leans against it. She is gives an exasperated sigh and pulls out her phone. She calls her grandma.

“Yeah it’s me, I’m sorry I missed the flight, how’s grandpa?”

She goes quiet as she listens to the response on the other end. She slides down the window and slumps on the floor. The camera cuts to a long shot so we can’t hear what she says next but it involves nodding of the head clarifying her responses as she gets up off the floor and switches off her phone. As she stands there for a moment she looks at the floor. After taking a deep breath she turns away from the window and walks away.

Transition scene of her staring out her train window as it gets dark. jumpcut

She gets home back home and is greeted by an empty hall way as she walks past the rooms towards the kitchen she passes the slightly ajar door to the old piano room and catches a glimpse of the light reflecting off of the piano. She peers in. The room is filled with thicker dust than before, the piano hasn’t been played in a long time but it still reflects the light as before, this time moonlight. The mood in the room is dull and blue in contrast to what it was like before in the first scene. The room feels cold and empty. She walks in and sits at the stool and begins to airplay the piano playing the notes she played as a child with her grandpa. As she continues to play the music starts to come to life and be played as the song her grandpa played starts to play and the room fills with reflecting the music. She shifts to starting to play the piano herself and the piece becomes a duet between her and her grandpa. As the room begins to build with atmosphere and becomes brighter reflecting her childhood she stops and the room cuts back to being blue and reality but this time the room is also filled with the light of the moon and is no longer dark. Its been filled with the light that his music brought just in a different form. She sits at the piano and looks up at the moon.