TWO BEDS AND A COFFEE MACHINE
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Mel, unknown
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There is a mother, with three kids, a girl, a boy and a baby girl.
The scene begins with the mother in her bedroom, having one last look before
she closes the door. In the bedroom, her husband is on the bed and the light
is off, the only light is the one coming from the street lamp outside. These
rays strike the bedroom floorboards as they beam through the window.
She exits the room and closes the door. She grabs her suitcase, which she had
already packed and walks down the dark hallway. She has bruises on her face,
and rips in her clothes. She walks into the kitchen looking for her kids,
only to find them all hiding under the kitchen table. Chairs surround them so
that they could not be easily seen. They feel that these chairs are their
only protection to the fighting that had been going on.
The eldest child, the daughter, is cradling the baby as if it were her own.
They all had been crying from all the screaming and hitting that had been
going on all night. The mother kneels down to them, assuring them that
everything will be alright. She tells them that they must go pack their bags,
as they will be leaving.
The children rush off to gather all their things. The mother goes into the
bathroom and starts to wash off all the blood on her body. She changes her
clothes and she tries to hide her bruises with make-up. She then collects all
the things that are valuable to her, such as photos of the kids, drawings and
toys to take on their journey. She also picks up the furniture from the floor
and cleans up anything that has been broken. She packs the bags in the car,
and walks back into the house. As she waits for her kids, she looks at a
photo of her husband and herself one last time. She begins to cry, thinking
to herself what had gone wrong? What had happened to the man she married and
where did he go?
The children enter the room waiting for their mother to notice them. She
turns around and reaches for their hands. Her daughter is still holding the
baby, because she is scared if she lets go the baby will be taken away from
the family. They all start to walk to the door. When they approach the door,
the mother turns around and has one last glance, looking at everything she is
about to give up. She knows she can never return.
Next scene, the mother is driving in the car, with all three kids in the
back. The baby is asleep on one side, and the other two kids are asleep, with
the daughter resting her head on her brother's shoulders, with his arm around
her.
It is raining and so it is beginning to get too hard to see. The car is
fogging up and the windscreen wipers are too slow. The mother pulls over at
the next hotel they come across. She checks into the hotel, and is told there
is only one more room left, so she takes it. This room has only two single
beds and a bathroom. She carries each child, one by one, and places them on
the beds. She walks over to the window and sits on a chair, watching the
rain. She starts to think about what had happened that night. The next scenes
are flashbacks of that night. Her husband is yelling at her, and then hits
her. She is crying and screaming back at him. While she is thinking these
thoughts, she hears her daughter crying, so she goes over to her. She kneels
on the floor and slowly strokes her daughter's hair, telling her everything
will be all right. Slowly, her daughter falls asleep and she still continues
to stroke her hair, thinking to herself that they have to go as far away as
possible, as she has committed a crime that no judge will understand.
She had gone through so much for so many years. She did not want her kids to
grow up with that kind of influence. She did it all for her kids, and was
willing to do anything for them. Her priority was to protect them. They are
her little angels.
Next scene, daylight has arrived. The mother is lying asleep on the bed next
to her daughter, and suddenly awakens. She wakes the kids and tells them that
they must continue to move on. They head for the car, and set off once again.
Their destination is anywhere but home. The mother pulls up at the railway
station. She takes the bags out of the boot, and both her son and daughter
take a bag to carry. The mother picks her baby from the back seat, and closes
all the doors. Then they all start to walk to the station. They approach the
counter and the mother buys 4 one-way tickets. She then tells her kids that
they must all wait outside so that they can see when the train arrives. They
sit on the bench and wait patiently for the train to arrive.
The mother has her car keys still in her hands and decides to place them on
the ledge of the window that she is sitting in front of. She wants to leave
everything behind, and so she abandons her car. The train arrives at the
platform and they all start to board. The son finds a 4-booth cabin so that
they can all sit together. Just as the song ends, the mother has one last
look through the window of the train, and then she removes her wedding ring,
and throws it out of the window. As the ring is falling, it is falling in a
slow motion and in the background the train takes off.
THE END
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