Synopsis

A long shot of a large, well kept building is shown; the building is then seen in closer detail. The scene changes, to the inside of the building, there is a maze of corridors travelled through before settling on the closed door of a cubicle. There is a sign on the cubicle door which reads “Fiona Meer”. Inside the cubicle, a seventeen year old girl is shown sitting on her bed blankly staring at a wall. The camera zeros in on the characters eye as the scene shifts. The back of Fiona is shown as she is sitting on the ground, over her shoulder a small mound of dirt, is seen. Sticking out from the mound is a cross made out of twigs, next to it is a picture frame with a dog in it. The character silently weeps. There is a sudden change of scene. The character is at school, she is sitting alone at lunch eating a sandwich, whilst other girls move past her without looking in her direction. The scene dissolves into the inside of a church, it seems to be empty, then at the front, near the alter, the character is seen lighting a candle and praying. The next memory seen is of Fiona picking a flower from a tree. She smells the flower and begins smile. The flower she smells is now seen through her eyes. Suddenly her vision turns blurry, the perspective is now no longer hers and she is seen swaying from side to side. Everything turns black. The scene fades from black to see Fiona lying in a hospital bed, she slowly stirs awake. There is a piece of paper laying on her, once she realizes she picks it up. As the piece of paper is shown, it is read in the voice of the person who wrote it, Nurse Rose. After reading the note left for her, Fiona sits up and moves her legs over the side of the bed. A mid shot shows her sitting on the side of the bed, her elongated sigh is heard across the room. She is sitting at her desk, in her cubicle; she shuts her eyes and tips her head back. A female voice is heard, Fiona is recalling what a presumed counselor said to her. She opens her eyes, slowly shakes her head and angrily thumps the desk. The scene changes and there is a knock on the door, someone says “Fiona, your mum thought you might like to see an old friend, shall I show him in?” Fiona stops writing and looks up; a dog runs into her room. She drops her pen; her mouth falls open and looks at it bewilderedly. It is the same dog seen in her memory, the one in the picture frame next to the grave. The counselor’s voice is heard; whilst she is speaking Fiona stares at the dog as it moves around her room. The scene fades to Fiona sitting at her desk, she is staring at a flower that’s on her diary. There is a note lying next to the flower which Fiona picks up, she scans the note repeatedly as a voice is heard reading it. After the note is read she reluctantly picks up the flower and smells it. A new scene fades in, Fiona isn’t in her room and her diary is lying open on her bed, a close up of the diary shows what is written on the pages. Fiona is heard reading what is written, soft music plays as the scene dissolves. The corridor which Fiona’s cubicle is in, is walked through, after reaching Fiona’s closed cubicle door, a hand moves into the close up and takes the sign off the door.