21.11.2014 PLANNING:TREATMENT - THE UNHINGING

Film Title: The Unhinging

The year is 2014. INDIA has been kidnapped. INDIA is 16 years old. She is locked in a male's basement in a gothic, darkly lit, Tudor style house located in a leafy, remote area. The kidnapper is mentally ill, with no control over his actions and thoughts. 

Prior, to kidnapping INDIA, he had kidnapped young girls and held them hostage in his basement, regarding them as company and friends. The basement is ill maintained, kept in horrific, dirty conditions, disease ridden. INDIA has been locked in these conditions for 9 days, she has copious amounts of open wounds on her head and body. She is becoming weak and fragile due to surviving on little sustenance and water. This makes it incredibly hard for her to escape. INDIA's kidnapper, known as JACK, is 25 years old, he positions himself as authorative, superior to the young girl due to his older age and tall height. 

INDIA suddenly burst out of the basement door, having used a knife to slice apart the corse rope wrapped tightly around her wrists, she thumps the door down. INDIA sprints out of the basement and forces the large, solid, gothic front door open straining her fragile frame.

INDIA runs, sprinting, gasping for clean air, having previously been barley surviving on the little available oxygen in the basement. Grabbing only a mobile phone from the small, darkly stained oak console table next to the door, she exits the house in a daze. Having been running for around 5 minutes, exhausted and bleary eyed, hallucinating with exhaustion. INDIA finds herself lost in a vast wood, her visual awareness is spinning. *Flashback to how INDIA being locked in the basement with her hands tied by wrists, struggling to move* INDIA continues to run frantically through the wood, the crispy, frost bitten winter leaves are cracking beneath her feet. *Flashback of JACK slowly bringing a knife to INDIA's neck - blood slowly oozes out of the fresh slice in her neck, INDIA's shaking with pain*

INDIA continues frantically running through the forest, quivering as she is numbingly cold. INDIA hears a twig snap behind her. She turns around to face her kidnapper with a gun in his hand by the side of his body. As JACK raises the gun, the title of the film appears on the screen - THE UNHINGING - with a voice over of a 999 telephone call, "Hello, what's your emergency?". Closing with INDIA's hand dropping the mobile phone.