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Aftersun

On a budget Turkish package holiday, an 11-year-old girl films her gentle, broke young father on a camcorder, not yet seeing the despair he hides behind every game and lesson.

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Written by

Charlotte Wells

Genre / Format

Drama, Coming-of-age · ~101 minutes (from 101 pages)

Setting

Late 1990s

Tone

Tender, melancholic memory-piece

By the numbers

139

Scenes

Characters

Locations

Props

Exhibit A — Taglines

> A handprint of sunscreen. A father you can't quite reach.

> Some holidays you only finish watching years later.

> Rewind the tape. He's still smiling. He's still leaving.

Synopsis

Late 1990s. Calum, a soft-spoken father not yet thirty-one, takes his daughter Sophie on a cheap week at a half-built Turkish resort, his right arm still in a plaster cast from a fall. Sophie, eleven and watchful in her oversized t-shirts and No Fear cap, records the trip on a DV camcorder: the pool, the chips, her dad practicing slow Tai Chi in elevator doors. They share a Walkman headphone, a single hotel bed, and a private shorthand of jokes. But the camera keeps catching what Sophie cannot yet read. Calum smokes alone on a scaffolded balcony, soaks his cast until it bleeds, spits at his own reflection in angled mirrors, and tells a stranger he's surprised he made it to thirty. Sophie, meanwhile, drifts toward older teenagers and a boy named Michael, edging across the threshold of adolescence. Woven through it all, an adult Sophie searches a strobe-lit rave for the man on the tape. A tender, quietly devastating study of how much of a parent a child is allowed to know, and how late the understanding arrives.

Themes

The unknowability of a parent

Calum is loving and present in every frame Sophie films, yet he hides the rest: alone, he perches on a balcony railing over a three-story drop, and confides to the dive instructor Onur that he can't picture himself at forty. Sophie has the footage but not the meaning.

Memory and the limits of looking back

The whole holiday is framed as playback. The film opens mid-rewind on grainy DV footage that blurs past and clicks to play, and the camera itself is Sophie's instrument, so every joyful moment arrives already past tense, watched rather than lived.

Hidden depression behind tenderness

The brightest gestures sit beside the darkest privacy. Calum smooths sunscreen onto Sophie's back leaving a faint handprint, then later soaks his casted arm until blood disperses in the bucket, and lies in a rising bath with a cloth domed over his mouth.

The threshold between childhood and adolescence

Sophie watches from the edges of a world she doesn't yet inhabit. She spies through a missing-lock cubicle on teenagers trading explicit gossip, idolizes the older pool-table crowd, and circles a first flirtation with Michael over the arcade motorbikes.

Distance and connection ('we share the same sky')

Lying in identical poses by the pool, Sophie tells Calum she likes that they share the same sky even when apart. The film answers her across decades: an adult Sophie reaching for him through a crowd she can never quite cross.

Scope at a Glance

139

Total scenes

Unique locations

Principal cast

Exterior scenes

Night shoots

VFX/FX scenes

Estimated shoot days

Company moves

approx. 16-22

Complexity Read

The pressure points are two child-adjacent performers carrying nearly every scene, extensive underwater and pool photography (breath-holds, scuba with a live seahorse, a sinking-mask POV), a rigged three-story balcony stunt, a strobe-cued two-performer body swap repeated across nine rave passes, and a heavy DV-cam playback grade threaded through the whole shoot.

Atmosphere

This is a film built out of a tape. It opens on a strobe that swaps a 31-year-old woman and an 11-year-old girl in and out of the same spot in a packed crowd, then settles into grainy DV footage of an airport queue rewinding and clicking back to play. Everything that follows carries that texture of footage being watched back: overexposed poolside video where Calum has to explain the camera's auto-exposure trick, a faux-reporter tour of the dive boat, a frozen DV grin that dissolves into purple-blue dusk under the main title. The air is humid, off-season, half-finished. Their hotel is the scaffolded Türk, where dawn arrives as the clang of metal on scaffolding and a drill starting up again, directly across the street from the upscale Ocean Park Resort they keep crossing the narrow path to reach. The light is high Mediterranean sun, sunburn and sun cream and the hand print Calum leaves on Sophie's back, then later his own back peeling in the shape of that print. The pace is patient and watchful, built from a child's vantage. Sophie spies through a missing-lock hole at teenagers trading gossip, studies the strap-marks and the warm strip of sweat Laura leaves on a plastic stool, grips the arcade motorbike's handlebars while older teens roughhouse behind her. The camera lets scenes breathe and trusts the viewer to read what Sophie cannot: that the father flipping her upside down by the heels and dabbing cleanser on her closed eyelids is the same man perched on the balcony railing with his legs over a three-story drop. Tenderness and dread occupy the same frame, often the same shot. Wide two-shots span the bedroom and bathroom so Sophie can ask a magazine question while, feet away, Calum hacks at his cast with nail scissors and blood disperses in the bucket. What lingers a week later is not plot but pressure and water. Calum lying in the bathtub as the level rises around his chest. A wet cloth domed over his mouth as he breathes in. The seahorse coiling its tail around Sophie's finger while her father, reflected in her mask, photographs her. The slowed rave dropping to a quarter speed until his face is ashen and dripping and looks like death, intercut with the same disco light bathing the Türk Hotel dance floor while a younger Calum, emphatically alive, pulls a mortified Sophie toward the crowd. The film withholds the thing it is grieving and lets you assemble it from a dead battery passed up a coach, a man crossing the road into a near-miss with a bus, a confession to a dive instructor that he can't see himself at 40. It ends in residue. A cigarette end forgotten on the roof edge below their room. A lost diving mask still sinking toward the dark. A fallen stack of postcards revealing one that reads only, "I love you very much. Never forget that." A hose left gushing on the ground beside a lost bag swallowed into greenery. Hold the textures that recur: red digital clock glow at 3:07 muffled under a thrown t-shirt that slides back to the floor, a luminous green wristband wriggled off a drunk teenager's wrist and onto a child's, mud smeared in stripes across a face, sodium-vapour light tracing a Turkish carpet's pattern in a New York apartment years later.

Tonal Descriptors

01tender02watchful03grainy04sun-bleached05submerged06ache underneath play07off-season08elliptical09undertow of dread10hushed11close12irretrievable

Reference Points

William Eggleston's saturated snapshots

the dignity and melancholy of ordinary holiday colour, plastic chairs and pool-deck red, the everyday lit like it matters.

Hockney's pool paintings

flat turquoise water and figures submerged in chlorinated light, the surface that both reflects and hides.

Late-90s consumer DV camcorder footage

the actual grain, auto-exposure bloom, and rewind artifacts, used as a built-in second camera and emotional filter, not a gimmick.

Wong Kar-wai's stepped slow-motion

for the rave: warping a body's movement until ecstatic dancing curdles into something desperate and unreachable.

Nan Goldin's intimacy with subjects

flash-close proximity to people in private, tender and exposed states, including the kiss between two boys glimpsed through a cracked door.

The infinity-mirror bathroom shot

two angled mirrors multiplying a man to the horizon as he spits at his own reflection, a tool for showing self-loathing without a word.

Music & Sound

The film is mostly quiet, and that quiet is load-bearing. Long stretches carry only room tone and the environment: the construction drilling that opens each Türk morning, the in-camera rumble and bleed of a PA announcement on the plane, a too-loud hotel phone that makes Calum drop the camera so it records nothing but wrinkled sheets. Two people share one Walkman headphone on a coach; later they lie side by side on sun beds, each lost in a separate track, the score refusing to unify them. When score does arrive it should feel like an emotion surfacing involuntarily rather than underlining a beat. Sound is also where the film hides its dread: rave music fades in slowed and warped through water as Calum sinks alone in scuba gear, and at the rave's deepest point the music drops to a quarter speed with the pitch falling out from under it. The needle-drops are diegetic and period-specific, and they do the heavy lifting at the ruptures. Blur's "Tender" plays unbroken across a seven-scene sequence (78 through 84) that tucks Sophie in, follows Calum out to the NOIZ nightclub and a kiss in silhouette, passes through the rave, and lands on an empty corridor looking out at uncertain lights. Sophie sings R.E.M.'s "Losing My Religion" alone on the karaoke stage, waving for Calum to join, enduring the whole song growing self-conscious as he refuses, a pivotal rupture played entirely through one performed song. Smaller cues mark texture and time: the resort's lounge entertainer Tony crooning "Time goes by so slowly," the intro of All Saints' "Never Ever" as Laura passes on her wristband, Sophie humming "Feeling hot, hot, hot" into a wetsuit. When music stays out, let objects and bodies sound. The clang of scaffolding, the rewind-whir of a MiniDV tape, the drip of blood into a bucket the script marks twice as "Drop. Drop." A crowd at the ancient amphitheatre singing "For he's a jolly good fellow" up to a Calum hidden in shade, the song carrying over into the next scene where, alone and naked with his back to camera, he sobs. Let language carry warmth too: a mangled "Torremolinos," a coached Turkish "teşekkür ederim," the deadpan "told a porky pie."

Soundtrack References

Past Lives · 2023

Christopher Bear & Daniel Rossen

borrow the restraint, sparse piano and held tones that let two people sit in distance and ellipsis without scoring the ache for them.

The Tree of Life · 2011

Alexandre Desplat

for memory's involuntary swell, music that floods in like a recovered image rather than a cue, then withdraws.

All of Us Strangers · 2023

Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch

fragile, dissolving electronics under a son reaching for a lost parent, the exact texture for the dream-rave passages.

Morvern Callar · 2002

needle-drop-driven (no single composer)

steal the method, not the score: a Scottish girl's interior life built almost entirely from diegetic tracks on a Walkman.

Color Palette

Sunburn Coral#E26D5A

the high-factor lotion print on Sophie's back that becomes the hand-shaped sunburn on Calum's, the holiday's tenderness written on skin.

Strobe Magenta#C13E8A

the disco light on the Türk dance floor and the rave that share a colour, the hinge where joy and the adult dream-grief collapse into one space.

Pool Turquoise#3FA6A0

the covered pool's glow under Sophie's first kiss and the chlorinated water she keeps submerging into, breath held, eyes forced open.

Scaffold Dusk#3E4C6B

the purple-blue dusk under the main title and the dark sea Calum wades into in his boxers, the film's recurring blue of arrival and disappearance.

DV Tape Black#14110F

the deep dark Calum descends into alone in scuba gear and the cut to black when he vanishes from the rave, the negative space the footage keeps falling into.

Similar Moods

Past Lives · 2023

the same ache of distance and what is irretrievable, two people in a room unable to close the gap between them.

The Florida Project · 2017

a child's bright, oblivious play staged inches from an adult's quiet collapse, both held in the same sun-soaked frame.

Petite Maman · 2021

memory and time folding over so a daughter can briefly meet a parent at their own age, grief made tender and small.

Morvern Callar · 2002

sun-bleached holiday melancholy and a young Scottish interior life soundtracked by a personal stereo, beauty shadowed by an offscreen death.

Scenes

1INT

pp. 1

A RAVE

memory, dislocation

A strobe alternates 31-year-old Sophie and 11-year-old Sophie in the same spot in a packed crowd, both eyes shut and out of time.

Characters: ADULT SOPHIE; SOPHIE
Props: crew neck jumper
Wardrobe: Adult Sophie in a warm crew neck jumper, out of place against 90s rave attire
VFX/Stunts: Strobe-cued swap between two performers in identical positions
Notes: Opening; the sound of a tape inserted into a camera bridges to the next scenes, framing the film as playback.
Camera: Locked medium shot, subject centered, crowd compressed with a long lens
Lighting: Hard strobe, alternating white blink and total black
Mood: Dislocated, haunted

2INT

DAY

pp. 1

AIRPORT

anticipation

Grainy DV cam footage of an airport security queue, then the tape rewinds and images blur past before clicking to play from the beginning.

Characters: None
Props: DV camcorder; MiniDV tape
Wardrobe: Standard
VFX/Stunts: DV cam tape rewind and playback effect
Notes: DV CAM footage; recurring framing device of footage being watched back.
Camera: Static handheld DV-cam point of view, slight drift
Lighting: Flat fluorescent terminal light, blown highlights
Mood: Anticipatory, nostalgic

3INT

DAY

pp. 2-3

PLANE

playful warmth

On grainy DV cam, 11-year-old Sophie pulls faces by the plane window while Calum hides behind a Turkey guidebook, only his serious eyes peeking out.

Characters: SOPHIE; CALUM
Props: DK's Guide to Turkey guidebook; DV camcorder
Wardrobe: Standard
VFX/Stunts: DV cam still-image and abstract-color playback
Notes: DV CAM CONT'D; establishes the father-daughter teasing dynamic and the camera as Sophie's instrument.
Camera: Handheld DV-cam, intimate eye-level two-shot
Lighting: Bright window daylight blowing out one side
Mood: Playful, warm

4EXT

pp. 3

AIRPORT LANDING STRIP - EARLY DUSK

arrival

Calum's frozen DV-cam grin dissolves into the purple-blue of dusk as a plane streaks overhead and the MAIN TITLE appears.

Characters: None
Wardrobe: Standard
VFX/Stunts: Descending aircraft passing overhead in a flash
Notes: MAIN TITLE: AFTERSUN.
Camera: Wide static sky shot, very high horizon line low
Lighting: Last violet dusk glow, aircraft lights streaking
Mood: Arrival, threshold

5INT

pp. 3-5

TRANSFER BUS - LATE DUSK

introduction, ease

A dead battery is passed hand to hand up the packed holiday coach until it reaches Calum, his arm in a plaster cast from elbow to knuckles.

Characters: CALUM; SOPHIE; BELINDA
Props: AA battery; plaster cast; Walkman; faulty microphone
Wardrobe: Calum with a plaster cast from elbow to knuckles; Belinda tanned, in tour-rep attire
Notes: TURKEY, late '90s. Establishes Belinda's mispronounced 'Torremolinos' running joke.
Camera: Aisle-level medium shot tracking the passed battery to Calum
Lighting: Dim warm coach interior, fading dusk through windows
Mood: Easy, communal

6INT

pp. 5

TRANSFER BUS - NIGHT - A LITTLE LATER

tenderness

Sophie sleeps nestled against Calum's shoulder, his broken arm resting over her with effortless intimacy as families are called off the bus.

Characters: CALUM; SOPHIE; BELINDA
Props: Walkman headphone; plaster cast
Wardrobe: Standard
Notes: Belinda calls out hotel stops over the PA.
Camera: Close two-shot, slightly low, framing the resting heads
Lighting: Soft amber streetlight wash through coach windows
Mood: Tender, drowsy

7EXT

pp. 5-6

STREET - NIGHT - LATER

recognition

Belinda mistakes Sophie for Calum's little sister; he quietly corrects 'My daughter, actually,' and father and daughter share a private, well-worn glance.

Characters: CALUM; SOPHIE; BELINDA
Props: suitcases
Wardrobe: Standard
Notes: Establishes the two facing hotels: the upscale Ocean Park Resort across from the scaffolded Türk Hotel.
Camera: Medium three-shot, the two hotels visible deep behind
Lighting: Warm streetlamp pools against cool night
Mood: Knowing, gentle

8EXT

pp. 6

STREET - NIGHT - MOMENTS LATER

shared joke

As the bus pulls away, Calum and Sophie overlap each other mimicking Belinda's 'Torremolinos' and dissolve into laughter at their hotel entrance.

Characters: CALUM; SOPHIE; BELINDA
Props: luggage
Wardrobe: Standard
Notes: Belinda announces the 4 o'clock Ocean Park welcome meeting (POST-LAP).
Camera: Medium two-shot, coach receding in deep background
Lighting: Warm doorway spill, dark street beyond
Mood: Giddy

9INT

NIGHT

pp. 7

TÜRK HOTEL RECEPTION

weary arrival

Waiting at the unmanned desk, Sophie leafs through a worn erotic paperback from the lobby table as the hotel dog flops at her feet.

Characters: CALUM; SOPHIE
Props: reception bell; erotic paperback novel; Elle Magazine; German HELLO! magazine; local newspaper; wicker-backed chair
Wardrobe: Standard
Notes: The erotic paperback Sophie eyes here returns later (scene 76). Hotel dog introduced.
Camera: Medium shot, slightly high looking down at girl and dog
Lighting: Single warm lobby lamp, deep shadow corners
Mood: Weary, curious

10INT

NIGHT

pp. 7

HOTEL ROOM

quiet exhaustion

Sophie lies sprawled asleep and fully clothed on the single bed while Calum sits on its edge and picks up the phone.

Characters: CALUM; SOPHIE
Props: hotel room phone
Wardrobe: Standard
Notes: Only one bed in the room; sets up the booking problem.
Camera: Medium wide, low side angle taking in both figures
Lighting: Single warm bedside lamp, rest of room dark
Mood: Hushed, uneasy

11INT

pp. 8

HOTEL ROOM - NIGHT - MOMENTS LATER

private unease

Hampered by his cast, Calum fumbles the knots of sleeping Sophie's laces, then freezes mid-stand clutching something he has just retrieved from a jacket pocket.

Characters: CALUM; SOPHIE
Props: plaster cast; Sophie's trainers; Walkman; rucksack; unidentified retrieved object
Wardrobe: Standard
Notes: POST-LAP phone call about the room mix-up. The clenched-fist object foreshadows Calum's hidden distress; balcony door slides open.
Camera: Medium shot favoring the clenched fist, shallow focus
Lighting: Low bedside warmth, face half in shadow
Mood: Private, foreboding

12EXT

NIGHT

pp. 8-9

HOTEL ROOM BALCONY

solitude

On the scaffolded balcony Calum struggles to light a crumpled cigarette one-handed, then loses himself in his Walkman, arms loose, as if somewhere else.

Characters: CALUM
Props: cigarette; hotel matchbook; Walkman; white plastic chairs
Wardrobe: Standard
Notes: Scaffolding motif; the matchbook recurs (scene 76).
Camera: Medium static, the scaffolding framing the figure
Lighting: Near-dark, only matchflame and faint spill from the room
Mood: Solitary, adrift

13EXT

pp. 9

HOTEL ROOM BALCONY - NIGHT - A LITTLE LATER

dread, fragility

Calum sits perched on the balcony railing, legs dangling over a three-story drop, watched from inside through a gap in the curtains.

Characters: CALUM; HOTEL EMPLOYEE
Props: cigarette; balcony railing; empty bottles
Wardrobe: Standard
VFX/Stunts: Actor perched precariously on railing over a three-story fall (safety rig)
Notes: First of the recurring balcony-railing images that build a sense of risk around Calum.
Camera: Voyeur shot through a curtain gap, partial frame
Lighting: Dark balcony, sliver of warm interior light at curtain edge
Mood: Dread, fragility

14EXT

pp. 9

TÜRK HOTEL - EARLY MORNING

routine

At dawn the clang of metal on scaffolding and drilling begins again as a hotel employee opens up the poolside sun beds.

Characters: HOTEL EMPLOYEE
Props: sun beds; scaffolding
Wardrobe: Standard
Notes: Hotel dog meanders nearby; ongoing construction soundscape.
Camera: Wide static establishing shot, worker small in frame
Lighting: Flat cool dawn light, long thin shadows
Mood: Routine, waking

15INT

MORNING

pp. 9-10

HOTEL ROOM

intimacy, mirroring

Sophie still clothed and Calum in boxers lie in identical face-down positions, arms above their heads, as building work drones outside.

Characters: CALUM; SOPHIE
Props: hotel information booklet
Wardrobe: Calum in boxer shorts; Sophie still in yesterday's clothes
Notes: Mirrored body positions recur as a visual motif (scene 40).
Camera: High overhead or steep angle on the mirrored sleepers
Lighting: Flat pale morning daylight through net curtains
Mood: Intimate, mirrored

16EXT

DAY

pp. 10

TÜRK HOTEL POOLSIDE

play

On overexposed DV cam, Sophie tries to surf-stand on a lilo in the pool, topples, then flips it and submerges herself fully.

Characters: SOPHIE; CALUM
Props: DV camcorder; lilo; beach towel; umbrella; camera manual
Wardrobe: Standard
VFX/Stunts: Lilo flip and underwater submersion
Notes: DV CAM. Calum explains the camera's auto-exposure trick. Scaffolding workers visible.
Camera: Handheld DV-cam, loose reframing on the wobbling girl
Lighting: Blown-out overexposed midday sun on water
Mood: Playful, bright

17EXT

CONTINUOUS

pp. 10-11

UNDERWATER

suspension

Sophie holds her breath underwater, eyes forced open, as the empty lilo floats above her and Calum's voice calls down.

Characters: SOPHIE; CALUM
Props: lilo
Wardrobe: Standard
VFX/Stunts: Underwater breath-hold photography
Notes: Underwater breath-holding recurs across the film (scenes 39, 73, 112).
Camera: Low underwater angle looking up at the floating girl
Lighting: Soft refracted sun caustics through the water
Mood: Suspended, weightless

18EXT

pp. 11-13

TÜRK HOTEL POOLSIDE - DAY - MOMENTS LATER

care, gentle probing

Calum carefully smooths high-factor lotion onto Sophie's back, leaving a faint hand print, while the Portuguese family sets up across the pool.

Characters: SOPHIE; CALUM; BARTENDER; ANDRÉA; MARCIA
Props: sun tan lotion; camera manual; beer; milkshake; cocktail umbrella; palm-tree stirrer
Wardrobe: Andréa, 10, in a purple floral dress; Marcia, 5, in swimwear
Notes: Calum asks after Sophie's home life with her mum; introduces Andréa and Marcia and the hand-print motif. Sophie's first Turkish 'teşekkür ederim'.
Camera: Medium two-shot over the loungers, family in deep background
Lighting: Bright high midday sun, soft on skin
Mood: Caring, gentle

19EXT

pp. 13-14

STREET - LATE AFTERNOON

wonder

Sophie points up at a drifting cloud of paragliders as she and Calum cross the narrow path between their hotel and the Ocean Park Resort.

Characters: SOPHIE; CALUM
Wardrobe: Standard
VFX/Stunts: Paragliders drifting overhead
Notes: Paraglider motif established; Calum coaching Sophie's Turkish pronunciation.
Camera: Wide low-angle including the sky and paragliders
Lighting: Warm low afternoon sun, long shadows
Mood: Wonder

20INT

CONTINUOUS

pp. 14-15

OCEAN PARK RESORT FOYER - LATE AFTERNOON

negotiation

Sophie snatches the cash from Calum's wallet before it is fully out and sprints off down the corridor toward the gaming area.

Characters: SOPHIE; CALUM
Props: cash; wallet; GoTurkey welcome meeting sign; directional signpost
Wardrobe: Standard
Notes: The 'one game, one chapter' deal; sets up the arcade and Calum's book gift.
Camera: Wide deep-corridor shot, girl mid-sprint into the vanishing point
Lighting: Even cool interior resort light
Mood: Quick, mischievous

21INT

pp. 15

OCEAN PARK RESORT MEETING ROOM - MOMENTS LATER

self-recrimination

Calum realizes his watch reads 4pm against the wall clock's 5pm, mutters 'Fuck sake, Calum,' and sits defeated to reset it.

Characters: CALUM
Props: wristwatch; wall clock; stacked chairs
Wardrobe: Standard
Notes: He has missed the welcome meeting; first overt glimpse of Calum's frustration with himself.
Camera: Wide static, lone figure dwarfed by empty room
Lighting: Flat overhead fluorescent, cool and unflattering
Mood: Self-reproach, deflation

22INT

pp. 15-17

OCEAN PARK RESORT GAMING/BAR AREA - LATE AFTERNOON

fascination

Sophie grips the arcade motorbike's handlebars in fierce concentration while behind her the older teens roughhouse around the pool table.

Characters: SOPHIE; OLLY; LAURA; TOBY; JANE; SCOTT; CALUM
Props: arcade motorbike machine; coins; pool cue; pool table
Wardrobe: Olly, 15, buzzcut blond; Laura, 15, fringe and high ponytail
Notes: Introduces the teen group Sophie watches and idolizes; she overhears 'turd tapper'.
Camera: Medium over the arcade bike, teens deep behind
Lighting: Cool screen glow on the girl, warm bar light behind
Mood: Fascinated, watchful

23EXT

NIGHT

pp. 17-20

OCEAN PARK RESORT DINING AREA

mischief, candor

Mid-conversation about Calum's plans, the pair conspiratorially lob bread rolls toward the tour reps' stage show and sprint laughing for the exit.

Characters: SOPHIE; CALUM; BELINDA; WAITER; LAURA; SCOTT
Props: dessert tray; beer; bread rolls; napkin; tour rep uniforms
Wardrobe: Tour reps in matching shorts and polo shirts
Notes: Calum reveals Alice got back together with her ex and the cafe plan is dead; Sophie asks to paint her room yellow.
Camera: Medium two-shot, the lit stage soft in background
Lighting: Warm fairy-light gold, stage glow behind
Mood: Mischief, candor

24EXT

CONTINUOUS

pp. 20

STREET - NIGHT

joy

Laughing hysterically and hand in hand, they sprint across the street; Sophie trips and Calum scoops her up and carries her into the Türk Hotel.

Characters: SOPHIE; CALUM
Wardrobe: Standard
Notes: None
Camera: Tracking medium-wide following the run, slight motion blur
Lighting: Streetlamp amber, warm doorway ahead
Mood: Joy

25INT

pp. 20-22

HOTEL ROOM - NIGHT - LATER

insomnia, ache

Awake on the narrow fold-out bed, Calum rewinds and rewatches Sophie's DV-cam tribute, then throws a t-shirt over the red glow of the 3:07 clock; it slides back to the floor.

Characters: CALUM; SOPHIE
Props: video camera; fold-out spring bed; digital clock; t-shirt; adult book
Wardrobe: Standard
Notes: DV CAM playback of the bathroom 'one-armed Calum Aaron Patterson' bit; the glowing clock motif of his sleeplessness.
Camera: Close medium on the father and the camera screen
Lighting: Cold camera-screen glow plus bleeding red clock light
Mood: Sleepless, aching

26INT

pp. 21

RAVE

searching

In strobe-lit glimpses Adult Sophie pushes through the crowd toward Calum, his age and appearance as in Turkey, as dancers block her view.

Characters: ADULT SOPHIE; CALUM
Wardrobe: Standard
VFX/Stunts: Strobe intercut of crowd
Notes: Recurring rave interlude; Adult Sophie reaching for her father across memory.
Camera: Handheld over-shoulder pushing through the crowd
Lighting: Hard strobe, bodies cutting the light
Mood: Searching, reaching

27INT

pp. 21-22

HOTEL BATHROOM - EARLY MORNING

submersion, distress

Calum lies in the bathtub as the shower beats down on his chest and the water level slowly rises around him.

Characters: CALUM
Props: bathtub; shower
Wardrobe: Standard
Notes: Part of the bath/water meditation motif for Calum.
Camera: High angle looking down into the tub
Lighting: Cool pale dawn through frosted glass
Mood: Submersion, distress

28INT

pp. 22

HOTEL BATHROOM - A LITTLE LATER

exhaustion

A wet cloth over his face, Calum breathes in until a concave dome forms over his mouth, a makeshift meditation interrupted by Sophie's knock.

Characters: CALUM; SOPHIE
Props: wet cloth; bathtub; plaster cast
Wardrobe: Standard
Notes: He looks exhausted, then slaps his cheeks to liven up for Sophie.
Camera: Close shot on the cloth-covered face, door soft behind
Lighting: Cool flat bathroom light, white cloth catching it
Mood: Exhausted, hollow

29INT

pp. 22-23

OCEAN PARK RESORT FOYER - LATE MORNING

affection, distance

On the pay phone to her mum, Sophie watches Calum practice a slow Tai Chi form in the reflective elevator doors and calls him a 'weird slow motion ninja'.

Characters: SOPHIE; CALUM
Props: pay phones; elevator; change
Wardrobe: Standard
Notes: Sophie's mum (unseen) on the phone; Calum's Tai Chi practice as a coping ritual. Mum wants to talk to Calum.
Camera: Wide two-area shot, father reflected in elevator doors
Lighting: Even cool daylight foyer light
Mood: Affection across distance

30INT

pp. 23

OCEAN PARK RESORT GAMING/BAR AREA - MOMENTS LATER

thwarted

Sophie finds both arcade motorbikes occupied by two drunk men in their 50s roaring as the machines thud side to side under their weight.

Characters: SOPHIE; TWO DRUNK MEN
Props: arcade motorbike machines
Wardrobe: Standard
Notes: None
Camera: Medium wide, girl foreground edge, men on the machines
Lighting: Cool arcade glow, warm bar spill behind
Mood: Thwarted

31INT

pp. 23-24

OCEAN PARK RESORT FOYER - MOMENTS LATER

tenderness, eavesdropping

Sophie sneaks up behind Calum as he hangs up the phone to her mum; he jumps in fright, then flips her upside down by the heels and carries her off.

Characters: SOPHIE; CALUM
Props: pay phone
Wardrobe: Standard
VFX/Stunts: Calum lifts and dangles Sophie upside down
Notes: Sophie overhears Calum tell her mum 'I'm so happy for you' (her mum's news, implied).
Camera: Medium wide, action caught mid-flip
Lighting: Even cool foyer daylight
Mood: Tender, surprised

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pp. 24-26

OCEAN PARK RESORT LUNCH AREA - MIDDAY

playful pride

Over chips, Calum quizzes Sophie on world capitals and she rattles them off until a passing waiter coolly corrects 'The capital of Turkey is Ankara, not Istanbul.'

Characters: SOPHIE; CALUM; WAITER; FATHER; SON
Props: chips; ketchup; plates
Wardrobe: Standard
Notes: Nearby a father drags his son from the waterslides, snapping 'That's the day ruined.'
Camera: Medium two-shot across the table, waiter passing behind
Lighting: Bright flat midday sun under parasols
Mood: Playful pride

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AFTERNOON

pp. 26-27

OCEAN PARK RESORT GAMING/BAR AREA

competitive frustration

Sophie races the arcade motorbike back into first place against Michael but just misses the leaderboard, huffing in disappointment.

Characters: SOPHIE; MICHAEL; JOHN; CALUM
Props: arcade motorbike machine; coins
Wardrobe: Standard
Notes: First proper meeting with Michael, a boy roughly Sophie's age.
Camera: Medium two-shot across the arcade bikes
Lighting: Cool screen glow underlighting both children
Mood: Competitive frustration

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AFTERNOON

pp. 27-28

OCEAN PARK RESORT GAMING/BAR AREA

mentorship, aspiration

Calum coaches Sophie's pool technique and she sinks a tricky cushion shot just as the older teens she admires walk into the bar.

Characters: SOPHIE; CALUM; OLLY; LAURA; SCOTT; TOBY; JANE
Props: pool table; pool cue; chalk; cue ball; sign-up sheet; cork board
Wardrobe: Standard
Notes: Sets up the Friday pool tournament Sophie has entered. Calum's cushion-shot lesson pays off later (scene 120).
Camera: Low medium over the pool table, teens in the doorway behind
Lighting: Warm hanging bar lamp over green felt
Mood: Mentorship, aspiration

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pp. 28-30

TOILET - MOMENTS LATER

curiosity, exclusion

Through a missing-lock hole in the cubicle door, Sophie spies on teenagers Maxine and Lucy trading explicit gossip, then overhears 'she's, like, nine.'

Characters: SOPHIE; MAXINE; LUCY
Props: toilet paper; sink; mirror
Wardrobe: Sophie in boxy oversized t-shirt, football shorts, 'No Fear' cap
Notes: Sophie at the threshold of adolescence she doesn't yet understand; sees herself in the mirror.
Camera: Close on the spying eye at the door hole, teens soft beyond
Lighting: Harsh flat tiled-bathroom overhead light
Mood: Curiosity, exclusion

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pp. 30-33

OCEAN PARK RESORT GAMING/BAR AREA - MOMENTS LATER

belonging

Sophie pots three balls off the break against the older boys; Olly blurts 'Fucking hell, Sophie...impressive' and winks, and she glows at being included.

Characters: SOPHIE; CALUM; OLLY; TOBY
Props: pool table; triangle rack; coins; chalk; plaster cast
Wardrobe: Standard
Notes: Olly mistakes Calum for Sophie's brother; for a moment Calum is treated as a peer.
Camera: Medium group shot around the table, girl centered
Lighting: Warm overhead pool-table lamp
Mood: Belonging

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EVENING

pp. 33

HOTEL ROOM

unease, insistence

What looks like a real struggle is Calum gravely teaching Sophie a wrist-release self-defense move, pulling free a little too forcefully.

Characters: CALUM; SOPHIE
Wardrobe: Standard
VFX/Stunts: Self-defense wrist-grab demonstration
Notes: The wrist-release lesson pays off when Michael grabs her later (scene 96).
Camera: Medium two-shot, tight on the gripped wrists
Lighting: Low dusk light through net curtains, warm lamp
Mood: Unease, insistence

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NIGHT

pp. 33

HOTEL ROOM

tenderness, foreboding

Calum gently dabs face cleanser onto Sophie's closed eyelids as she sits cross-legged, asking why the self-defense matters.

Characters: CALUM; SOPHIE
Props: face cleanser; cotton wool
Wardrobe: Standard
Notes: POST-LAP continuation of the self-defense talk: 'So you can defend yourself.'
Camera: Close two-shot on the tended face and the father's hands
Lighting: Soft warm bedside lamp, deep surrounding shadow
Mood: Tender, foreboding

39EXT

MORNING

pp. 33-34

TÜRK HOTEL POOLSIDE - UNDERWATER

playful closeness

Underwater, Calum photographs Sophie holding her breath, then poses for her before they rise together, legs treading water in frame.

Characters: CALUM; SOPHIE
Props: underwater camera
Wardrobe: Standard
VFX/Stunts: Underwater photography
Notes: Underwater portrait motif.
Camera: Underwater medium two-shot, slight low angle
Lighting: Soft morning sun caustics through the water
Mood: Playful, close

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pp. 34

TÜRK HOTEL POOLSIDE - DAY - A LITTLE LATER

longing, connection

Lying in identical poses with arms shielding their eyes, Sophie tells Calum she likes that they 'share the same sky' even when apart.

Characters: CALUM; SOPHIE
Wardrobe: Standard
VFX/Stunts: Paragliders descending in waves
Notes: Key thematic line about distance and connection; paragliders descend, one in a precarious stunt.
Camera: High wide, the two mirrored figures and the sky of paragliders
Lighting: Bright flat overhead sun
Mood: Longing, connection

41EXT

DAY

pp. 34-35

STREET

lightness

As Sophie tears through the 'she sells sea shells' tongue twister, Calum lifts his shirt to reveal the red, hand-print-shaped sunburn on his back.

Characters: CALUM; SOPHIE
Wardrobe: Calum's back sunburned with a distinct hand-print outline
Notes: Payoff of the lotion hand print from scene 18, called a 'temporary tattoo.'
Camera: Medium two-shot, favoring the revealed sunburned back
Lighting: Bright midday sun raking the skin
Mood: Lightness

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pp. 35-37

HAMAM STEAM ROOM - A LITTLE LATER

protectiveness, threat

As two older men in speedos settle uncomfortably close in the empty steam room, a visibly tense Calum quietly moves Sophie to his side, then rises to leave.

Characters: CALUM; SOPHIE; TWO OLDER MEN
Props: evil eye bracelet
Wardrobe: Calum and Sophie sweating; the two men in speedos
Notes: Calum's wariness around men and Sophie's safety threads through the film.
Camera: Medium wide, steam softening the figures, men close in frame
Lighting: Diffuse, steam-scattered overhead light
Mood: Protective, threat

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pp. 37

HAMAM SHOWER - A LITTLE LATER

teasing affection

Calum coaxes a shivering Sophie under the freezing cold shower, counting to ten, then declaring her four-and-a-half-second dash 'technically' short.

Characters: CALUM; SOPHIE
Props: towel; cold shower
Wardrobe: Standard
Notes: Cold-water endurance recurs (cold spring, scene 112).
Camera: Medium two-shot under the shower spray
Lighting: Cool diffuse tile light, water spray glinting
Mood: Teasing affection

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NIGHT

pp. 37-38

HOTEL BATHROOM

quiet pain

Calum perches on the tub edge soaking his casted arm in a bucket, peeling away a loosening strip of plaster as Sophie asks if it hurt when he fell.

Characters: CALUM; SOPHIE
Props: bucket of water; plaster cast
Wardrobe: Standard
Notes: Begins the cast-removal sequence that continues across scenes 45-47.
Camera: Medium two-shot, close on the bucket and casted arm
Lighting: Single warm bathroom bulb, soft shadows
Mood: Quiet pain

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CONTINUOUS

pp. 38-39

HOTEL ROOM

probing

On the bed with the untouched gift book at her side, Sophie flips a teen magazine and asks Calum, off in the bathroom, why he and Mum still say 'love you.'

Characters: SOPHIE; CALUM
Props: teen magazine; gift book
Wardrobe: Standard
Notes: Calum and Sophie talk across the open bathroom door; the unread book recurs as a quiet motif.
Camera: Medium on the girl on the bed, lit doorway deep behind
Lighting: Warm bedside lamp, cool bathroom spill
Mood: Probing, idle

46INT

CONTINUOUS

pp. 39-40

HOTEL BATHROOM

self-harm undertone

Hacking at the cast with tiny nail scissors, Calum cuts himself; blood streams down his arm and disperses in the bucket against the dissolving plaster.

Characters: CALUM; SOPHIE
Props: nail scissors; toiletries bag; bucket of water; plaster cast
Wardrobe: Standard
VFX/Stunts: Blood dispersing in water (practical effect)
Notes: Sophie recalls thinking her parents were getting married; the blood in water underscores Calum's fragility.
Camera: Close on the forearm and the clouding bucket
Lighting: Single warm bathroom bulb, low and intimate
Mood: Fragility

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CONTINUOUS

pp. 40

HOTEL ROOM

distance within the room

In a wide two-shot spanning bedroom and bathroom, Sophie reluctantly opens the gift book while Calum stares down at blood dropping into the bucket.

Characters: SOPHIE; CALUM
Props: gift book; bucket of water
Wardrobe: Standard
Notes: 'Drop. Drop.' of blood ends the cast sequence.
Camera: Wide deep-focus two-shot spanning both rooms
Lighting: Warm bedroom lamp, cool bathroom light
Mood: Distance, ache

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MORNING

pp. 41

/EXT. DIVE BOAT DECK

quiet companionship

On the deck of the two-masted gulet cutting through dark sea, Sophie taps the white railing in time with her tired, smiling father.

Characters: SOPHIE; CALUM
Props: boxed diving masks; plastic bag
Wardrobe: Standard
Notes: The dive-day excursion begins; two new diving masks introduced.
Camera: Medium two-shot along the deck rail, sea beyond
Lighting: Soft cool morning sea light
Mood: Quiet companionship

49EXT

DAY

pp. 41-42

DIVE BOAT/WATER

futility

From the sinking mask's POV, Calum dives and strains underwater for Sophie's lost mask, fingers reaching, but it stays a hair beyond his grasp.

Characters: SOPHIE; CALUM
Props: diving mask; snorkel
Wardrobe: Standard
VFX/Stunts: Underwater POV of sinking mask; Calum free-diving for it
Notes: Sophie's expensive mask is lost; Calum can't retrieve it (callback in scene 50 and interstitial 135).
Camera: Underwater POV from the sinking mask, father reaching up
Lighting: Surface sun rays fading into deep blue
Mood: Futility

50EXT

pp. 42-45

DIVE BOAT DECK - A LITTLE LATER

foreboding confession

Wrestling into an unforgiving wetsuit, Calum shares a quiet exchange with diver Onur and admits 'Can't see myself at 40... Surprised I made it to 30.'

Characters: SOPHIE; CALUM; ONUR; MAN
Props: wetsuits; magenta diving mask; plastic bags; air tank rack
Wardrobe: Sophie in a dry wetsuit; Calum in a wet, hard-to-don wetsuit
Notes: Onur, 30, the dive instructor, expecting a baby; Calum's line about not seeing 40 is a key foreshadowing.
Camera: Medium wide on the deck, instructor and girl framing the father
Lighting: Bright open midday sea light
Mood: Foreboding, candid

51EXT

pp. 45-46

WATER

playful instruction

Floating at the surface, Onur drills the dive hand-signals and Calum and Sophie answer 'Stop' and 'Up' in unison, racing to call it first.

Characters: SOPHIE; CALUM; ONUR
Props: dive masks; regulators
Wardrobe: Standard
VFX/Stunts: Open-water surface action
Notes: Pre-dive briefing on the surface.
Camera: Low water-level medium shot among the floating divers
Lighting: Bright open midday sun on choppy water
Mood: Playful instruction

52EXT

pp. 46

WATER - MOMENTS LATER

descent

The three lift their deflator hoses overhead, expel the air from their jackets, and gradually sink beneath the surface together.

Characters: SOPHIE; CALUM; ONUR
Props: BCD jackets; deflator hoses; air tanks; regulators
Wardrobe: Standard
VFX/Stunts: Controlled scuba descent
Notes: None
Camera: Water-level medium, the three sinking together
Lighting: Bright surface sun, light dropping as they descend
Mood: Descent

53EXT

CONTINUOUS

pp. 46

UNDERWATER

shared awe

Onur coils a seahorse's tail around Sophie's outstretched finger; behind her mask her eyes bulge with wonder as Calum, reflected in her gaze, photographs her.

Characters: SOPHIE; CALUM; ONUR
Props: seahorse; underwater camera; BCD; deflator hose
Wardrobe: Standard
VFX/Stunts: Underwater scuba photography with live seahorse
Notes: A peak of shared serene joy; Sophie reflected in Calum's mask.
Camera: Close underwater shot on the finger, seahorse and wide eyes
Lighting: Soft filtered underwater sun, gentle and dim
Mood: Shared awe

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pp. 46-48

DIVE BOAT

joy edged with worry

On DV cam, Sophie gives a giddy faux-reporter tour of the Yali 3, then privately whispers that Dad 'told a porky pie' about having a diving license.

Characters: SOPHIE
Props: DV camcorder
Wardrobe: Standard
Notes: DV CAM. 'Sophie Lesley Patterson reporting live from the Yali 3.' A flicker of doubt crosses her contrived grin.
Camera: Handheld DV-cam self-portrait at arm's length
Lighting: Warm dim filtered cabin light, video haze
Mood: Joy edged with worry

55EXT

pp. 48

UNDERWATER

engulfing dread

Alone and fully kitted in scuba gear, Calum descends deeper and deeper until darkness entirely envelops him.

Characters: CALUM
Props: scuba gear
Wardrobe: Standard
VFX/Stunts: Solo deep-water descent into darkness
Notes: Bridges into the rave; Calum descending alone literalizes his sinking interior state.
Camera: Wide underwater, the figure shrinking into the dark below
Lighting: Faint surface light fading to black depths
Mood: Engulfing dread

56INT

pp. 48

RAVE

dread

Through gaps in the crowd Adult Sophie glimpses Calum dancing with abandon, but up close his freedom curdles into something desperate and endless.

Characters: ADULT SOPHIE; CALUM
Wardrobe: Standard
VFX/Stunts: Strobe crowd
Notes: Recurring rave interlude darkening in tone.
Camera: Handheld, peering through gaps in the crowd
Lighting: Hard strobe punching through dark bodies
Mood: Dread

57EXT

AFTERNOON

pp. 48-52

ROOFTOP CAFE

evasion, hope

Cross-legged behind a low table, Sophie blows imaginary cigarette smoke in Calum's face as he flinches at her question about visiting Nana, then sidesteps her future.

Characters: SOPHIE; CALUM; HOLIDAY COUPLE; TWO FEMALE FRIENDS
Props: Turkish tea; milkshake; fancy stirrers; umbrellas; deck of cards; nargileh
Wardrobe: Standard
VFX/Stunts: Paragliders overhead
Notes: Calum dreams aloud of Hawaii and raises private school and university; a fortune teller reads coffee grounds nearby.
Camera: Medium two-shot low over the cafe table
Lighting: Warm low afternoon sun on the rooftop
Mood: Evasion, hope

58INT

pp. 51-52

OCEAN PARK RESORT GAMING/BAR AREA - LATE AFTERNOON

flirtation begins

Michael slips a British ten-pence coin into the arcade bike to spark up '1 CREDIT' and offers Sophie another, introducing himself by name.

Characters: SOPHIE; MICHAEL
Props: arcade motorbike machine; ten pence coin
Wardrobe: Standard
Notes: Sophie cuts a corner too close and crashes into stacked tires.
Camera: Medium two-shot at the arcade bike, coin between them
Lighting: Cool screen glow underlighting both children
Mood: Flirtation beginning

59EXT

pp. 52

STREET NEAR HOTEL - LATE AFTERNOON - SIMULTANEOUS

recklessness

To a loud honk, Calum crosses the road nonchalantly, narrowly missing a departing tour bus.

Characters: CALUM
Wardrobe: Standard
VFX/Stunts: Near-miss with departing bus
Notes: Calum's casual disregard for danger.
Camera: Wide street shot, bus large behind the walking figure
Lighting: Warm low afternoon sun, long shadows
Mood: Recklessness

60INT

pp. 52-53

OCEAN PARK RESORT GAMING/BAR AREA - LATE AFTERNOON

budding closeness

Leaning into the same turn, Sophie and Michael tilt until their arms nearly touch before he boosts past her at the final approach.

Characters: SOPHIE; MICHAEL
Props: arcade motorbike machines
Wardrobe: Standard
Notes: Michael: 'That's 1-1' — they are quietly keeping score.
Camera: Medium two-shot, both leaning into the same turn
Lighting: Cool arcade screen glow
Mood: Budding closeness

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EVENING

pp. 53

HOTEL ROOM

depressive undertow

Dressed for the evening but not really reading her magazine, Sophie admits to Calum through the wall that she feels 'a bit down or something.'

Characters: SOPHIE; CALUM
Props: magazine
Wardrobe: Sophie dressed for the evening
Notes: Sophie articulates a depressive feeling that mirrors her father's interior state.
Camera: Medium close on the girl on the bed
Lighting: Low dusk light and a warm lamp, soft
Mood: Depressive undertow

62INT

CONTINUOUS

pp. 53-54

HOTEL BATHROOM

self-loathing

Between angled mirrors that multiply his image to infinity, Calum abruptly spits at his own reflection as Sophie describes the feeling of crashing and sinking.

Characters: CALUM; SOPHIE
Props: toothbrush; angled mirrors
Wardrobe: Standard
VFX/Stunts: Infinity-mirror multiplication effect
Notes: The spit on the mirror recurs (scene 63); Calum hides it as he ushers Sophie out warmly.
Camera: Tight on the angled mirrors and their infinite reflections
Lighting: Cool flat bathroom light, dusk beyond
Mood: Self-loathing

63INT

pp. 54

HOTEL BATHROOM - EARLY MORNING

residue

Sunrise light creeps into the bathroom revealing the spit, now dried, on the mirror over the sound of distant drilling.

Characters: None
Props: mirror
Wardrobe: Standard
Notes: Quiet insert; the dried spit as a trace of the night before.
Camera: Close static insert on the dried mark on the mirror
Lighting: Soft creeping dawn light, cool to warm
Mood: Residue, stillness

64EXT

DAY

pp. 54-55

STREET

affection, money worry

Walking toward the public beach past stalls, Calum offers to buy Sophie something and she jokingly asks for a PlayStation.

Characters: CALUM; SOPHIE; YOUNG MAN
Props: nightclub flyers
Wardrobe: Standard
Notes: A young man hands out 'NOIZ' nightclub flyers, planting the club Calum visits later (scene 82).
Camera: Wide tracking two-shot down the market street
Lighting: Bright dusty midday sun
Mood: Affection, quiet worry

65EXT

CONTINUOUS

pp. 55-57

POSTCARD STAND

fear, control

Calum flatly refuses to let Sophie pierce her ears, warning grimly that the first thing an attacker would do is rip the earrings from her lobes.

Characters: CALUM; SOPHIE
Props: postcards; postcard stand
Wardrobe: Standard
Notes: Calum's protectiveness curdles into something darker; Sophie retreats to the braiding stall.
Camera: Medium two-shot, the postcard rack behind them
Lighting: Hard bright midday sun
Mood: Fear, control

66EXT

CONTINUOUS

pp. 57

HAIR BRAIDING STALL

passing solitude

As a stall owner weaves a coloured braid into Sophie's hair, a woman asks Calum to photograph her, then double-takes on realizing Sophie is his.

Characters: CALUM; SOPHIE; STALL OWNER; WOMAN
Props: hair braids; wooden stool; camera
Wardrobe: Standard
Notes: Calum steps next door to the carpet shop, leaving Sophie alone briefly.
Camera: Medium shot on the seated girl, adults framing behind
Lighting: Bright dappled market daylight
Mood: Passing solitude

67INT

pp. 57-58

CARPET SHOP

private grief

Alone before a beautiful hanging carpet, Calum runs his hand along the wool and is overcome, his upper body shuddering as he fights back tears.

Characters: CALUM; SOPHIE; SALESMAN
Props: hanging carpets; rug; tea
Wardrobe: Standard
Notes: Each carpet 'tells a story'; this rug (45 million lira) reappears in the New York apartment (scenes 107, 131). Salesman teaches the 'tea sugar ederim' pronunciation.
Camera: Medium wide, the man dwarfed by the hanging carpet
Lighting: Warm dim interior glow on the woven colors
Mood: Private grief

68EXT

AFTERNOON

pp. 58-60

TÜRK HOTEL POOLSIDE

letting go

In the post-lunch hush over the empty pool, Calum reluctantly lets Sophie go off with the older teens for an hour as Andréa and Marcia play nearby.

Characters: SOPHIE; CALUM; OLLY; TOBY; LAURA; ANDRÉA; MARCIA; COUPLE
Props: souvenir gift bag
Wardrobe: Standard
VFX/Stunts: Paragliding reflection on the still pool
Notes: Sophie and Calum debate the £1000 carpet; the teens invite Sophie to play; a couple smiles knowingly at Calum.
Camera: Wide poolside shot, still water reflecting the sky
Lighting: Soft warm post-noon light
Mood: Letting go

69INT

pp. 60-61

OCEAN PARK RESORT GAMING/BAR AREA - A LITTLE LATER

yearning, observation

Sophie studies the strap-marks and bra straps of the more tanned, older Laura at the bar, then notices the warm strip of sweat Laura leaves on the plastic stool.

Characters: SOPHIE; LAURA; OLLY; TOBY; SCOTT; JANE; OCEAN PARK BARTENDER 1
Props: Fanta lemon; luminous green wristband; pool cue; bar stool
Wardrobe: Laura with bikini strap tan lines, halter neck, table-tennis-bat stud earrings
Notes: The all-inclusive wristband is introduced; later given to Sophie (scene 95). Scott and Jane make out.
Camera: Close two-shot, focus on shoulder, strap lines and stool
Lighting: Warm low bar light, soft on skin
Mood: Yearning, observation

70INT

pp. 61

HOTEL ROOM

restlessness

Calum practices Tai Chi in the bedroom trying to hold onto calm, fails, grabs his wallet, and leaves.

Characters: CALUM
Props: wallet
Wardrobe: Standard
Notes: Tai Chi as a failing coping mechanism.
Camera: Medium static, the lone figure mid-form
Lighting: Flat warm daylight through net curtains
Mood: Restlessness

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pp. 61-62

OCEAN PARK RESORT GAMING/BAR AREA - A LITTLE LATER

wanting to belong

Sophie quietly cheats at pool, fishing the white ball back out of the pocket, then loses her nerve and returns it as the teens trade slang about 'snaking.'

Characters: SOPHIE; LAURA; OLLY; TOBY; SCOTT; JANE
Props: pool table; cue ball
Wardrobe: Standard
Notes: Olly slings his arm around Sophie and whispers a plan; leads into the poolside prank.
Camera: Low medium over the pool table, on the furtive hand
Lighting: Warm overhead pool-table lamp
Mood: Wanting to belong

72EXT

CONTINUOUS

pp. 62-63

OCEAN PARK RESORT POOLSIDE

almost belonging

Sophie shoves Scott into the pool on cue, but hesitates a beat too long to join the spontaneous fully clothed plunge and jumps with a tentative 'Woooo!'

Characters: SOPHIE; OLLY; LAURA; TOBY; SCOTT; JANE
Wardrobe: Teens fully clothed in the pool
VFX/Stunts: Multiple clothed cast members into pool
Notes: Sophie's slight beat of hesitation marks her as still on the outside of the group.
Camera: Wide poolside, group plunging, girl hesitating at the edge
Lighting: Bright flat midday sun on splashing water
Mood: Almost belonging

73EXT

CONTINUOUS

pp. 63

UNDERWATER

awakening, self-consciousness

Underwater, Sophie sees Laura and Olly entwined; surfacing, she looks down at her own flat chest beneath her translucent soaked t-shirt.

Characters: SOPHIE; LAURA; OLLY; SCOTT; TOBY
Wardrobe: Laura and Sophie in soaked white tops, see-through
VFX/Stunts: Underwater photography
Notes: Sophie registers the gulf between her childhood body and the teens' adolescence.
Camera: Underwater, entwined pair behind, girl's gaze foreground
Lighting: Cool refracted pool caustics
Mood: Awakening, self-consciousness

74EXT

CONTINUOUS

pp. 63

OCEAN PARK RESORT POOLSIDE

withdrawal

Drenched and unnoticed, Sophie quietly slides out of the pool and leaves the group behind.

Characters: SOPHIE
Wardrobe: Standard
Notes: None
Camera: Wide poolside, group behind, girl leaving foreground
Lighting: Bright flat midday sun
Mood: Withdrawal

75INT

CONTINUOUS

pp. 63

CARPET SHOP

quiet decision

Calum's gaze travels across the intricate patterns of the carpet he admired, and he shakes hands with the salesman over a cup of tea.

Characters: CALUM; SALESMAN
Props: carpet; tea
Wardrobe: Standard
Notes: Implies Calum buys the rug; it later anchors the adult-Sophie apartment scenes.
Camera: Medium two-shot, the chosen carpet behind the handshake
Lighting: Warm dim interior glow on the woven colors
Mood: Quiet decision

76INT

AFTERNOON

pp. 63-64

HOTEL ROOM

secret-keeping

Tidying the room alone, Sophie hides a risqué cocktail stirrer between an activity book and the erotic novel she took from the lobby, secreting away her grown-up finds.

Characters: SOPHIE
Props: cocktail stirrer; matchbook; checked red and white dress; bikini; puzzle and activity book; erotic novel; rucksack
Wardrobe: Sophie layers a bikini top under the checked red and white dress
Notes: Matchbook with three missing matches ties back to Calum's balcony smoking; the erotic novel from scene 9 returns.
Camera: Medium close on the girl and her hidden objects
Lighting: Warm afternoon light through net curtains
Mood: Secret-keeping

77INT

pp. 64-67

HOTEL ROOM - EARLY EVENING

unreachable

Sophie interviews Calum on DV cam playing on the TV, asking what he thought at 11 he'd be doing at 31; he sits at the edge of frame, only his lower body visible, and won't answer.

Characters: SOPHIE; CALUM
Props: DV camcorder; television; Calum's books; meditation guide; self-help and programming books
Wardrobe: Standard
VFX/Stunts: Composite of DV cam feed on TV plus live room action in one frame
Notes: Calum recounts his neglected 11th birthday and the red toy phone; a defining glimpse of his wounded past.
Camera: Composite frame, DV footage on the TV plus the live room
Lighting: Dusk light, warm lamp, cool TV glow
Mood: Unreachable

78EXT

pp. 67-68

HOTEL ROOM BALCONY - NIGHT (MUSIC SEQUENCE)

wistful closeness

Over a beer and a worn chess set on the busy balcony, Calum lets Sophie take a huge winced gulp as she asks if he'll ever move back to Scotland.

Characters: CALUM; SOPHIE
Props: chess board; beer
Wardrobe: Standard
Notes: Scenes 78-84 play as one continuous music sequence to Blur's 'Tender.'
Camera: Medium two-shot over the balcony chess table
Lighting: Warm room and pool-light spill against night
Mood: Wistful closeness

79INT

pp. 68

HOTEL ROOM - A LITTLE LATER (MUSIC SEQUENCE)

rootlessness

Calum holds Sophie in a tight hug, her legs wrapped around his waist, telling her he never really felt like he belonged in Edinburgh.

Characters: CALUM; SOPHIE
Wardrobe: Standard
Notes: Music sequence continues; Calum's sense of never belonging anywhere.
Camera: Close two-shot on the embrace
Lighting: Warm low lamplight, soft falloff
Mood: Rootlessness, tenderness

80INT

pp. 68

HOTEL ROOM - A LITTLE LATER (MUSIC SEQUENCE)

bittersweet blessing

Tucking Sophie in, Calum tells her she can live wherever she wants and be whoever she wants as the camera pans across to his empty bed.

Characters: CALUM; SOPHIE
Wardrobe: Standard
Notes: 'You have time' — the pan to the empty bed quietly foreshadows his absence.
Camera: Slow pan from the tucked-in child to the empty bed
Lighting: Warm bedside lamp, cooler shadow on the empty bed
Mood: Bittersweet blessing

81EXT

pp. 68-69

HOTEL ROOM BALCONY (MUSIC SEQUENCE)

departure

Calum passes the families laughing at the bar and pool on his way out into the night.

Characters: CALUM
Wardrobe: Standard
Notes: Calum slips away from the hotel alone.
Camera: Tracking medium following the leaving figure through the crowd
Lighting: Warm pool and bar glow behind, dark ahead
Mood: Departure

82INT

pp. 69

NOIZ - LOCAL NIGHTCLUB (MUSIC SEQUENCE)

escape

In silhouette, Calum smokes and drinks, then dances with a woman who may be Belinda, and they kiss before a cut to black.

Characters: CALUM; BELINDA
Props: cigarette; drink
Wardrobe: Standard
Notes: The 'NOIZ' club from the earlier flyer; the woman is ambiguously Belinda.
Camera: Backlit silhouette medium shot, figures in shadow
Lighting: Smoky colored backlight, deep black foreground
Mood: Escape

83INT

pp. 69

RAVE (MUSIC SEQUENCE)

reckoning

In extreme close-up Adult Sophie watches a hand clasp Calum's shoulder and a pill placed in his palm, which he knocks back, and for the first time she looks away.

Characters: ADULT SOPHIE; CALUM
Props: pill
Wardrobe: Standard
VFX/Stunts: Strobe close-ups
Notes: The rave's colour and space distinguish it from the earlier rave scene.
Camera: Extreme close-ups on the palm, the pill, the turning face
Lighting: Hard cold strobe, deep black
Mood: Reckoning

84INT

pp. 69

TÜRK HOTEL CORRIDOR - NIGHT (MUSIC SEQUENCE)

emptiness

The camera tracks down an empty hotel corridor past closed doors to an opening that looks out over the dark street, glimmering with uncertain lights.

Characters: None
Wardrobe: Standard
Notes: Closes the Blur music sequence on an image of absence.
Camera: Tracking shot straight down the empty corridor
Lighting: Cool dim corridor light, dark street glimmer at the end
Mood: Emptiness

85EXT

pp. 69

STREET - EARLY MORNING

calm before

Under a bright blue sky the empty pool is marked only by early risers' beach towels as the hotel dog chases its tail on the path between the two hotels.

Characters: None
Props: beach towels
Wardrobe: Standard
Notes: Quiet establishing shot before the morning's tension.
Camera: Wide static establishing shot of pool and path
Lighting: Fresh bright early-morning light
Mood: Calm before

86EXT

pp. 69-70

HOTEL ROOM BALCONY - EARLY MORNING

peril

Calum stands tall and perfectly still on top of the balcony railing, his back to camera, facing the pool as paragliders fall in the sky above.

Characters: CALUM
Props: balcony railing
Wardrobe: Standard
VFX/Stunts: Actor standing on balcony railing over a multi-story drop (safety rig)
Notes: The most charged of the balcony-railing images; leaves his survival ambiguous before cutting away.
Camera: Low static, the figure on the rail against the sky
Lighting: Cool pale dawn light, soft and flat
Mood: Peril

87INT

MORNING

pp. 70-71

TÜRK HOTEL DINING ROOM

worry, friction

Over breakfast a hollow-eyed Calum murmurs to himself; Sophie jokes about the 'three signs of madness' and turns his open palm over, finding it not hairy.

Characters: SOPHIE; CALUM
Props: breakfast tray; honeycomb; Coco Pops; coffee; cream; spoon
Wardrobe: Standard
Notes: Calum snaps at Sophie; residual tension carries into the day. His emptiness is unmistakable.
Camera: Medium two-shot across the breakfast table
Lighting: Flat cool morning window light
Mood: Worry, friction

88EXT

DAY

pp. 71-72

OCEAN PARK RESORT POOLSIDE

low ebb

Dozing on a sun bed, a half-written 'Dear Nana...' postcard slips onto Sophie's stomach as she and Calum lie side by side, each lost in their own headphones.

Characters: SOPHIE; CALUM
Props: postcards; pen; headphones; sun tan lotion
Wardrobe: Standard
Notes: Calum pushes Sophie to do something with the day; she is still curt from breakfast.
Camera: Medium two-shot over the loungers
Lighting: Bright flat midday sun
Mood: Low ebb

89EXT

DAY

pp. 72

OCEAN PARK RESORT POOLSIDE

sudden hurt

In a competitive game of water polo a wound-up man slams the ball so hard it hits Sophie square in the face.

Characters: SOPHIE; CALUM; OVEREAGER MAN
Props: water polo ball; goal posts
Wardrobe: Standard
VFX/Stunts: Water polo action; ball strike to the face
Notes: Sophie didn't want to play; the injury triggers the next scene.
Camera: Medium on the girl at the moment of the ball strike
Lighting: Harsh bright midday sun on splashing water
Mood: Sudden hurt

90EXT

pp. 72-73

OCEAN PARK RESORT POOLSIDE - MOMENTS LATER

reversal of roles

As blood streams from Sophie's nose, an ashen-faced Calum panics until a calm 50s woman steps in, sets Sophie up with a tissue, and tells him to put his head between his knees.

Characters: SOPHIE; CALUM; WOMAN
Props: tissue
Wardrobe: Standard
VFX/Stunts: Nosebleed (practical blood)
Notes: Sophie: 'I told you I didn't want to play.' The woman recurs at the tournament (scenes 119, 91 area).
Camera: Medium group shot, the calm woman central
Lighting: Bright flat poolside daylight
Mood: Reversal of roles

91EXT

EVENING

pp. 73-74

OCEAN PARK RESORT DINING AREA

strained quiet

After a rough day, Calum and Sophie eat dessert in heavy silence as entertainer Tony croons on stage and Calum questions why she's wearing her bikini.

Characters: SOPHIE; CALUM; WAITER; TONY
Props: dessert; beer glasses
Wardrobe: Sophie in the checkered dress with her bikini underneath; Tony in glitter jacket, ponytail, headset mic
Notes: Tension simmers between them; sets up the karaoke that follows.
Camera: Medium two-shot, the lit stage soft behind
Lighting: Warm stage glow against dusk-blue
Mood: Strained quiet

92EXT

NIGHT

pp. 74-76

OCEAN PARK AMPHITHEATRE

abandonment, hurt

Sophie sings 'Losing My Religion' alone on the karaoke stage, waving for Calum to join her; he refuses, and she endures the whole song growing visibly self-conscious.

Characters: SOPHIE; CALUM; TOUR REP
Props: microphone; karaoke lyric screen
Wardrobe: Standard
Notes: Sophie wounds Calum about offering to pay for things he can't afford; he leaves angry. A pivotal rupture.
Camera: Wide from behind the audience, the lone girl spotlit on stage
Lighting: Hard isolating stage spotlight against dark seats
Mood: Abandonment, hurt

93INT

NIGHT

pp. 77

HOTEL ROOM

despair

Calum rewatches Sophie's 'one-armed Calum Aaron Patterson' DV tribute but doesn't smile this time; he snaps the screen shut and stands.

Characters: CALUM
Props: video camera
Wardrobe: Standard
Notes: Mirror of scene 25; the same footage now lands as grief rather than comfort.
Camera: Close on the father and the camera screen
Lighting: Cold camera-screen glow, room in darkness
Mood: Despair

94INT

NIGHT

pp. 77-78

OCEAN PARK RESORT GAMING/BAR AREA

rejection

Sophie hovers at the edge of the teens' drinking game; Olly barely turns to ask 'Where's your dad?' before going back to his shot, and she's left out.

Characters: SOPHIE; OLLY; JANE; SCOTT; TOBY; LAURA; ALEX
Props: shot glasses; beer; watch
Wardrobe: Alex, 17, redhead
Notes: Introduces Alex; the teens have aged past Sophie. Olly's indifference stings.
Camera: Medium wide, the group central, the girl at the edge
Lighting: Warm low bar light, the margin in shadow
Mood: Rejection

95EXT

NIGHT

pp. 78-79

BAR

fleeting kindness

Drunk and leaving the next day, Laura wriggles the luminous green all-inclusive wristband off her own wrist and slips it onto Sophie's, the hairs on Sophie's arm standing on end.

Characters: SOPHIE; LAURA; OCEAN PARK BARTENDER 1; BOY 1
Props: luminous green wristband; Fanta lemon
Wardrobe: Standard
Notes: A genuine gesture from Laura; Sophie inherits access to the older world she's been watching.
Camera: Close two-shot on the hands and the glowing wristband
Lighting: Warm bar light, the wristband's green glow
Mood: Fleeting kindness

96EXT

NIGHT

pp. 79-80

OCEAN PARK RESORT - GROUNDS

fright into relief

Lost in the dark grounds, Sophie is grabbed from behind and instinctively executes Calum's wrist-release move, throwing her attacker, Michael, flat on his back.

Characters: SOPHIE; MICHAEL
Props: ground lights
Wardrobe: Standard
VFX/Stunts: Self-defense throw; Michael falls to the ground
Notes: Payoff of the self-defense lessons (scenes 37-38, 65). A group of younger kids laugh nearby.
Camera: Wide low, the throw caught with the boy hitting the ground
Lighting: Cool faint ground-level path lights in the dark
Mood: Fright into relief

97EXT

NIGHT

pp. 80

STREET

aimless descent

Calum picks a still-lit cigarette butt off the ground for a last drag as he walks down toward the shore past a taxi stand.

Characters: CALUM; DRIVER
Props: cigarette butt
Wardrobe: Standard
Notes: Calum's solitary night walk toward the sea (continues in scene 99).
Camera: Wide tracking the lone figure down the dark street
Lighting: Sparse warm streetlamps against deep night blue
Mood: Aimless descent

98EXT

NIGHT

pp. 80-82

OCEAN PARK RESORT - COVERED POOL

first kiss, exposure

Legs dangling in the turquoise glow of the covered pool, Sophie and Michael share a first kiss while, reflected in the water, six silhouettes peer down and drum on the skylight.

Characters: SOPHIE; MICHAEL
Wardrobe: Standard
Notes: The other kids spy from above; the kiss is staged for an audience. Sophie's first kiss.
Camera: Medium on the kissing pair, watchers reflected in the water
Lighting: Turquoise underwater pool glow from below
Mood: First kiss, exposure

99EXT

NIGHT

pp. 82

PUBLIC BEACH

self-erasure

Stripped to his boxers, Calum walks calmly into the near pitch-black sea, wades through the foam, then lunges beyond it and disappears from sight.

Characters: CALUM
Wardrobe: Calum in just boxer shorts
VFX/Stunts: Night ocean swim into darkness
Notes: Calum vanishes into the dark water; his survival left deliberately ambiguous. He grazes his shoulder leaping the wall (referenced in scene 114).
Camera: Wide static, the figure walking into the black sea
Lighting: Near-total dark, faint foam-line and low sky glow
Mood: Self-erasure

100INT

pp. 82

TÜRK HOTEL CORRIDOR - LATER

abandonment

Sophie stands outside the locked hotel room door knocking again and again, met only with silence.

Characters: SOPHIE
Wardrobe: Standard
Notes: Calum is not in the room; Sophie locked out.
Camera: Medium wide, the girl small before the closed door
Lighting: Cool dim corridor light, shadowed depth
Mood: Abandonment

101INT

pp. 82

TÜRK HOTEL RECEPTION - MOMENTS LATER

isolation

Sophie calls a small 'Hello?' into the empty reception, waits, and gets no answer.

Characters: SOPHIE
Wardrobe: Standard
Notes: None
Camera: Medium wide, girl small in the empty lobby
Lighting: Single dim warm lobby lamp, shadowed corners
Mood: Isolation

102EXT

pp. 82-83

TÜRK HOTEL GROUNDS - MOMENTS LATER

tender revelation

Through a cracked storage-hut door Sophie watches, entranced, as Toby and the redhead Alex kiss slowly, one hand cupped behind the other's head.

Characters: SOPHIE; TOBY; ALEX
Wardrobe: Standard
Notes: Quietly answers the 'turd tapper'/'gay' thread; Sophie witnesses real tenderness between the two boys.
Camera: On the girl's eye at the door crack, the pair soft beyond
Lighting: Cool night dark, warm sliver from the hut interior
Mood: Tender revelation

103EXT

pp. 83

TÜRK HOTEL POOLSIDE - LATER

vulnerability

Sophie has fallen asleep on the wicker-backed reception couch when the receptionist softly wakes her with a 'Miss.'

Characters: SOPHIE; RECEPTIONIST
Props: wicker-backed couch
Wardrobe: Standard
Notes: Slug reads POOLSIDE but the action returns to the reception couch from scene 9.
Camera: Medium two-shot on the couch, low and close
Lighting: Dim warm lobby light, soft on the sleeping girl
Mood: Vulnerability

104EXT

pp. 83

TÜRK HOTEL CORRIDOR - MOMENTS LATER

weary resolve

Watched from a distance by the receptionist, Sophie slots the key card until the light flicks red then green and quietly pushes the handle down.

Characters: SOPHIE; RECEPTIONIST
Props: key card
Wardrobe: Standard
Notes: The receptionist lets her into the room (referenced by Sophie in scene 114).
Camera: Medium on the girl at the door, receptionist far down the hall
Lighting: Cool dim corridor light, small lock-indicator glow
Mood: Weary resolve

105INT

CONTINUOUS

pp. 83

HOTEL ROOM

caretaking the parent

Finding Calum sprawled naked across the bed taking heavy, uneven breaths, Sophie quietly drapes the sheet over him and drops onto the fold-out bed.

Characters: SOPHIE; CALUM
Props: bed sheet; pyjamas; fold-out bed
Wardrobe: Calum naked, asleep
Notes: Calum has returned; Sophie covers and protects him, roles reversed.
Camera: Medium on the bed, the child drawing the sheet over the father
Lighting: Low warm light, deep surrounding shadow
Mood: Caretaking the parent

106INT

CONTINUOUS

pp. 83-84

HOTEL ROOM

drift

The camera pushes in on Calum then pans down to the floor, transitioning on the movement.

Characters: CALUM
Wardrobe: Standard
VFX/Stunts: Match-on-movement transition between Turkey and New York
Notes: Camera move bridges to the adult-Sophie New York apartment.
Camera: Slow push-in then downward pan, transition on the movement
Lighting: Low warm light, deep shadow
Mood: Drift

107INT

NIGHT

pp. 84

NEW YORK CITY APARTMENT

inheritance, melancholy

The camera lands on the same Turkish carpet from the shop; Adult Sophie's toes trace its pattern in sodium-vapour light as a partner half-asleep wishes her happy birthday.

Characters: ADULT SOPHIE; WOMAN
Props: Turkish carpet; bed
Wardrobe: Standard
VFX/Stunts: Strobe begins to overtake the room
Notes: Reveals Adult Sophie's present-day life: a partner, a baby, the carpet Calum bought. The infant crying recurs.
Camera: Low close shot on the carpet and the toes, bed beyond
Lighting: Sodium-orange street glow, encroaching cold strobe
Mood: Inheritance, melancholy

108INT

pp. 84-85

RAVE

horror, grief

As the rave slows to a quarter speed, extreme close-ups show Calum's eyes straining wide, ashen skin and dripping sweat; he looks like death.

Characters: ADULT SOPHIE; CALUM
Wardrobe: Standard
VFX/Stunts: Slowed/warped strobe; close-ups of Calum in distress
Notes: The rave's deepest and darkest point; Calum at his most unreachable.
Camera: Extreme slow-motion close-up on the straining face
Lighting: Cold slowed strobe, sickly and harsh, over black
Mood: Horror, grief

109INT

pp. 85

HOTEL ROOM - EARLY DAWN (PRE-SUNRISE)

fragile tenderness

On DV cam, Calum films sleeping Sophie's quietly twitching eyelids until the too-loud phone rings; he drops the camera and it records only wrinkled sheets.

Characters: CALUM; SOPHIE; RECEPTIONIST
Props: DV camcorder; hotel room phone
Wardrobe: Standard
Notes: DV CAM. The receptionist's wake-up call: the excursion bus leaves in 20 minutes.
Camera: Handheld DV-cam close-up, then dropped to film the sheets
Lighting: Cool dim pre-sunrise light, video haze
Mood: Fragile tenderness

110INT

DAWN

pp. 85-87

BUS

gentle reconciliation

As the sky shifts pink to yellow, Sophie tries on Calum's sunglasses while he feigns sleep, then wishes her father a quiet 'Happy birthday, Dad.'

Characters: SOPHIE; CALUM
Props: sunglasses; cap
Wardrobe: Sophie's cap over her face
Notes: Calum's deadpan story about the man who died from sunglasses; the 'Torremolinos' joke recurs warmly.
Camera: Medium two-shot in the bus seats, dawn sky behind
Lighting: Soft warm dawn light, pink-to-yellow sky
Mood: Gentle reconciliation

111EXT

MORNING

pp. 87

ROADSIDE STOP

passing it on

Behind the parked bus, Sophie watches carefully and imitates Calum's elementary Tai Chi movements.

Characters: SOPHIE; CALUM
Wardrobe: Standard
Notes: Sophie absorbs Calum's coping ritual; Tai Chi as something handed down.
Camera: Wide two-shot, both mid Tai Chi form behind the bus
Lighting: Bright fresh morning light
Mood: Passing it on

112EXT

MORNING

pp. 87-89

COLD SPRING

quiet strength

After men compete to endure the freezing spring, Sophie hands Calum her watch and submerges herself calmly, asking him to time her until three minutes.

Characters: SOPHIE; CALUM; THREE MEN; WOMAN
Props: wristwatch/stopwatch; camera
Wardrobe: Standard
VFX/Stunts: Cold-water endurance submersion
Notes: Sophie's breath-holding endurance surpasses the grown men; Calum photographs her.
Camera: Medium wide at the spring's edge, girl submerging
Lighting: Dappled cool morning light through trees
Mood: Quiet strength

113EXT

pp. 89

COLD SPRING - A LITTLE LATER

tender admission

Calum wraps a beaming Sophie in a towel and tells her, 'You're so much stronger than I am.'

Characters: SOPHIE; CALUM
Props: towel
Wardrobe: Standard
Notes: A loaded line given his fragility; POST-LAP.
Camera: Close two-shot on the wrapped girl and the father
Lighting: Cool dappled morning light, warmer on the towel
Mood: Tender admission

114EXT

DAY

pp. 89-92

MUD BATHS

apology, repair

Apologizing for passing out on her bed, Calum finally smears mud across Sophie's face in a tender ritual: each cheek, forehead, chin, and a stripe down her nose.

Characters: SOPHIE; CALUM; BURNT SCOTTISH MAN
Props: mud
Wardrobe: Tourists in modest and immodest swimwear; Calum's grazed shoulder from scene 99
Notes: Calum genuinely apologizes for the night before; Cleopatra exchange; references his unexplained grazed shoulder.
Camera: Close two-shot on the mud-painting of the face
Lighting: Warm hazy daylight over the mud baths
Mood: Apology, repair

115EXT

pp. 92-93

RAFT - A LITTLE LATER

intimacy, unease

On a small raft tethered to the mud-bath shore, Sophie tells Calum she kissed Michael; he relaxes, then urges her she can always tell him anything, 'no secrets.'

Characters: SOPHIE; CALUM
Props: raft
Wardrobe: Standard
Notes: Calum's confused, loaded plea about parties, boys, and drugs leaves Sophie unsettled.
Camera: Medium two-shot on the raft, water around them
Lighting: Warm hazy daylight on still water
Mood: Intimacy, unease

116EXT

AFTERNOON

pp. 93

AMPHITHEATRE AT KAUNOS

love, distance

On the ancient stone stage, Sophie whistles for the tour group's attention and conducts the whole crowd singing 'For he's a jolly good fellow' up to a shaded, distant Calum.

Characters: SOPHIE; CALUM; WOMAN
Wardrobe: Standard
Notes: Calum's face obscured by shade high up; Sophie's birthday surprise for him.
Camera: Wide, the girl on stage, the father tiny and shaded high up
Lighting: Hard warm afternoon sun, deep shadow on the upper tiers
Mood: Love, distance

117INT

EVENING

pp. 93

HOTEL ROOM

breakdown

Naked on the bed with his head in his hands and back to camera, Calum loses the fight against tears and sobs, his whole upper body convulsing.

Characters: CALUM
Props: sheer white curtain
Wardrobe: Calum naked
Notes: The 'jolly good fellow' song carries over POST-LAP into his private collapse; the camera pulls very slowly back.
Camera: Medium wide from behind, very slow pull-back
Lighting: Soft fading dusk through a sheer white curtain
Mood: Breakdown

118EXT

DUSK

pp. 93

TÜRK HOTEL POOLSIDE

simple sweetness

Sophie and the Portuguese sisters take turns stroking a stray kitten purring on Andréa's knee, the three of them giggling.

Characters: SOPHIE; ANDRÉA; MARCIA
Props: stray kitten
Wardrobe: Standard
VFX/Stunts: Live kitten
Notes: Andréa speaks Portuguese; pays off Calum's earlier suggestion she befriend them.
Camera: Close group shot on the three girls and the kitten
Lighting: Warm dusk light, soft blue pool glow
Mood: Simple sweetness

119INT

NIGHT

pp. 93-94

OCEAN PARK RESORT GAMING/BAR AREA

pride, scrutiny

A crowd gathers as Sophie lines up a trick shot in the pool tournament semi-final against Toby, while a woman needles Calum about whether she even goes to school.

Characters: SOPHIE; CALUM; WOMAN; TOBY
Props: pool table; pool cue
Wardrobe: Standard
Notes: The same woman from the nosebleed scene questions Calum's parenting.
Camera: Low over the pool table on the lining-up shot, crowd behind
Lighting: Warm overhead pool-table lamp, dim crowd
Mood: Pride, scrutiny

120INT

pp. 94

OCEAN PARK RESORT GAMING/BAR AREA - A LITTLE LATER

triumph

Calm and unrushed, Sophie pots her final ball then the black to win the tournament against Steve as the crowd erupts and Calum beams with pride.

Characters: SOPHIE; CALUM; STEVE
Props: pool table; pool cue; envelope; dinner voucher
Wardrobe: Sophie in a pale blue 'Girl Power' t-shirt
Notes: Payoff of Calum's pool coaching (scene 34); she wins 'a romantic dinner for two' voucher.
Camera: Medium on the winning girl, proud father and crowd around
Lighting: Warm overhead pool-table lamp, bright on the winner
Mood: Triumph

121INT

NIGHT

pp. 94-95

UPMARKET RESTAURANT

love, longing

A Polaroid of Calum crouched lovingly beside Sophie at their sundae develops face up on the table as she says it was 'the best holiday' and wishes they could stay longer.

Characters: SOPHIE; CALUM; PHOTOGRAPHER
Props: ice cream sundae; Polaroid camera; Polaroid photo; cash
Wardrobe: Standard
VFX/Stunts: Polaroid slowly developing on camera
Notes: The developing Polaroid mirrors how memory surfaces; a keepsake of the holiday.
Camera: Close on the developing Polaroid, the pair soft behind
Lighting: Warm soft restaurant light, candlelit warmth
Mood: Love, longing

122EXT

NIGHT

pp. 95-96

STREET

anticipation

Moonlight glints off the distant ocean as Calum and Sophie walk back toward their hotel and the sound of a party drifts in.

Characters: SOPHIE; CALUM
Wardrobe: Standard
Notes: Leads into the final-night dance.
Camera: Wide tracking two-shot, distant sea glinting behind
Lighting: Cool moonlight with warm streetlamp pools
Mood: Anticipation

123EXT

NIGHT

pp. 96-97

TÜRK HOTEL

joy, embarrassment

A disco light bathes the Türk Hotel dance floor in the same colour as the rave as Calum, refusing to dance alone, pulls a mortified Sophie toward the crowd.

Characters: SOPHIE; CALUM
Props: disco light
Wardrobe: Standard
VFX/Stunts: Disco light lens flare used as a cut device
Notes: The disco colour explicitly links to the rave; begins the intercut climax (scenes 123-130). 'On the flare we cut to.'
Camera: Medium two-shot, disco light flaring into the lens
Lighting: Saturated magenta-violet disco light, lens flare
Mood: Joy, embarrassment

124INT

pp. 97

RAVE

desperate reaching

Adult Sophie pushes past the last reveller and reaches for Calum's shoulders, but his pallid, frantic movement is too erratic for her to connect.

Characters: ADULT SOPHIE; CALUM
Wardrobe: Standard
VFX/Stunts: Strobe
Notes: Intercut with the Türk Hotel dance; Adult Sophie screams 'Stop' inaudibly.
Camera: Handheld, the woman lunging for the elusive figure
Lighting: Hard cold strobe over black, bodies cutting it
Mood: Desperate reaching

125EXT

pp. 97

TÜRK HOTEL

playful resistance

On the dance floor Calum reappears, his face lit up and emphatically alive, beckoning Sophie, who lightheartedly says 'Stop' and pushes him off.

Characters: SOPHIE; CALUM
Wardrobe: Standard
Notes: Sophie's playful 'Stop' rhymes with Adult Sophie's anguished one in the rave.
Camera: Medium two-shot on the dance floor
Lighting: Saturated magenta-violet disco light
Mood: Playful resistance

126INT

pp. 97

RAVE

grief, fury

Calum pushes Adult Sophie off as she fights against his movement, slapping then pounding his chest with clenched fists.

Characters: ADULT SOPHIE; CALUM
Wardrobe: Standard
VFX/Stunts: Strobe
Notes: The intercut peaks in violence as Adult Sophie struggles to hold her father.
Camera: Close handheld on the struggle, strobe-frozen
Lighting: Hard cold strobe over deep black
Mood: Grief, fury

127EXT

pp. 97

TÜRK HOTEL

embrace

Calum lifts Sophie by the arms and spins her around, her head pressed against his chest as she acquiesces for a second.

Characters: SOPHIE; CALUM
Wardrobe: Standard
VFX/Stunts: Calum lifts and spins Sophie
Notes: None
Camera: Medium, caught mid-spin, slight motion blur
Lighting: Saturated magenta-violet disco light
Mood: Embrace

128INT

pp. 97-98

RAVE

fleeting peace

Adult Sophie finally grasps Calum's shirt below the shoulders and presses her head to his chest; for a moment he settles and she wraps her whole self around him.

Characters: ADULT SOPHIE; CALUM
Wardrobe: Standard
VFX/Stunts: Strobe
Notes: The longed-for embrace across memory; Calum momentarily still.
Camera: Close on the clinging embrace, strobe-frozen
Lighting: Hard cold strobe, momentarily steadier on the pair
Mood: Fleeting peace

129EXT

pp. 98

TÜRK HOTEL

joy slipping away

Calum sets Sophie back on her feet, both faces euphoric, and she playfully pushes him off on the turn of the strobe.

Characters: SOPHIE; CALUM
Wardrobe: Standard
VFX/Stunts: Strobe match-cut
Notes: The push-off matches the rave cut; the holiday joy and the loss collapse together.
Camera: Medium two-shot, caught on the turn of the light
Lighting: Saturated magenta-violet disco light, turning
Mood: Joy slipping away

130INT

pp. 98

RAVE

loss

On a final turn of the strobe Calum is gone and Sophie stands alone in the crowd before a cut to black.

Characters: SOPHIE
Wardrobe: Standard
VFX/Stunts: Strobe; figure vanishing
Notes: The emotional culmination: Calum disappears, leaving Sophie alone.
Camera: Medium on the woman alone, crowd around, cut to black
Lighting: Hard cold strobe failing into total black
Mood: Loss

131INT

pp. 98-99

APARTMENT

memory and present meet

As 11-year-old Sophie's airport farewell plays on the TV, the camera pans 180 degrees to reveal Adult Sophie on the couch, holding the camera, meeting her younger self's gaze.

Characters: ADULT SOPHIE; SOPHIE; CALUM; AIRLINE EMPLOYEE
Props: DV camcorder; television; record player; guitar; children's books; couch
Wardrobe: Standard
VFX/Stunts: 360-degree pan transition device
Notes: DV CAM of the airport opening; Sophie's tongue-out, kiss-blowing goodbye. The framing device resolves: the footage was always Adult Sophie watching.
Camera: 180-degree pan from the TV footage to the woman on the couch
Lighting: Cool TV glow against warm low lamplight
Mood: Memory and present meet

132INT

DAY

pp. 99

AIRPORT

farewell, vanishing

Calum, dressed in his rave clothing, waves goodbye with the camera, takes two deep breaths, then opens double doors onto the dark crowded rave and steps inside.

Characters: CALUM
Props: DV camcorder; double doors
Wardrobe: Calum in the clothing familiar from the rave
VFX/Stunts: Door reveals the rave; continuous pan device
Notes: Collapses the airport, the present, and the rave into one space; Calum walks into the rave as the camera pans on.
Camera: Wide on the doors, the figure stepping from light into the rave
Lighting: Bright flat terminal light into dark strobing rave
Mood: Farewell, vanishing

133INT

pp. 99-100

APARTMENT

the present pulls her back

An infant cries off screen; Adult Sophie rises from the couch and the camera continues to pan once she's gone, transitioning on the 360 one last time.

Characters: ADULT SOPHIE
Props: couch; television
Wardrobe: Standard
VFX/Stunts: 360-degree pan transition
Notes: Adult Sophie returns to her own child and life; the memory recedes.
Camera: Continuous slow pan, the woman exiting frame, camera turning on
Lighting: Cool TV glow, warm low lamplight
Mood: The present pulls her back

134EXT

pp. 100

PUBLIC BEACH (TURKEY) - SUNSET

memory's grace

At sunset on the Turkish sand, Calum and Sophie jump to their feet and sprint together toward the sea.

Characters: CALUM; SOPHIE
Wardrobe: Standard
Notes: THE END. The final remembered image of father and daughter together.
Camera: Wide, the two running toward the sea, low sun behind
Lighting: Warm low golden sunset, long shadows
Mood: Memory's grace

135EXT

pp. 100-101

UNDERWATER

irretrievable

Sophie's lost mask continues to sink ever deeper toward the depths of the sea.

Characters: None
Props: diving mask
Wardrobe: Standard
VFX/Stunts: Underwater sinking object
Notes: Additional interstitial shot. Echoes scene 49's lost mask.
Camera: Wide underwater, the mask sinking into the dark below
Lighting: Faint surface light fading to black depths
Mood: Irretrievable

136EXT

DAY

pp. 101

HOTEL BALCONY

trace

Calum's cigarette end rests forgotten on the roof edge of the floor below their room.

Characters: None
Props: cigarette end
Wardrobe: Standard
Notes: Additional interstitial shot; a small remnant of Calum's presence.
Camera: Close static insert on the cigarette end on the ledge
Lighting: Bright flat daylight on grey concrete
Mood: Trace

137EXT

DAY

pp. 101

TÜRK HOTEL GROUNDS

small loss

An unattended hose gushes water on the ground while Sophie's lost bag blends unseen into the lush greenery.

Characters: None
Props: hose; lost bag
Wardrobe: Standard
Notes: Additional interstitial shot.
Camera: Static wide on the grounds, hose and hidden bag
Lighting: Bright flat daylight on green foliage
Mood: Small loss

138INT

pp. 101

HOTEL ROOM

tenderness, finality

A fallen stack of postcards reveals one from Calum to Sophie reading simply: 'I love you very much. Never forget that.'

Characters: None
Props: postcards
Wardrobe: Standard
Notes: Additional interstitial shot; Calum's plain, devastating note to his daughter.
Camera: Close static insert on the scattered postcards and the note
Lighting: Soft flat daylight
Mood: Tenderness, finality

139EXT

pp. 101

ROAD

closing stillness

The sun dips behind the mountains at sunset over an empty road.

Characters: None
Wardrobe: Standard
Notes: Final additional interstitial shot.
Camera: Wide static landscape, road leading to the mountains
Lighting: Last amber-to-violet dusk light, sun behind the ridge
Mood: Closing stillness

Locations

rave

A dark, crowded nightclub/rave space cut in and out of visibility by a strobe; the dream-memory space where Adult Sophie searches for and reaches her father. Its colour is later mirrored in the Türk Hotel disco light.

INT9 scenes

NIGHT

Set Requirements

•Programmable strobe lighting
•Large dancing crowd
•Variable colour washes to distinguish recurrences
•Capacity for slowed/warped sequence

Key Visual Moments

S1A strobe alternates 31-year-old Sophie and 11-year-old Sophie in the same spot in a packed crowd, both eyes shut and out of time.
S26In strobe-lit glimpses Adult Sophie pushes through the crowd toward Calum, his age and appearance as in Turkey, as dancers block her view.
S56Through gaps in the crowd Adult Sophie glimpses Calum dancing with abandon, but up close his freedom curdles into something desperate and endless.
S83In extreme close-up Adult Sophie watches a hand clasp Calum's shoulder and a pill placed in his palm, which he knocks back, and for the first time she looks away.
S108As the rave slows to a quarter speed, extreme close-ups show Calum's eyes straining wide, ashen skin and dripping sweat; he looks like death.
S124Adult Sophie pushes past the last reveller and reaches for Calum's shoulders, but his pallid, frantic movement is too erratic for her to connect.
S126Calum pushes Adult Sophie off as she fights against his movement, slapping then pounding his chest with clenched fists.
S128Adult Sophie finally grasps Calum's shirt below the shoulders and presses her head to his chest; for a moment he settles and she wraps her whole self around him.
S130On a final turn of the strobe Calum is gone and Sophie stands alone in the crowd before a cut to black.

airport

A modern airport: a corridor and snaking security queue (seen mostly as DV footage) plus an exterior landing strip at dusk. The double doors at the end of the corridor open onto the rave in the final sequence.

BOTH3 scenes

DAYDUSK

Set Requirements

•Security checkpoint and queue
•Corridor with double doors that open onto the rave set
•Exterior landing strip with aircraft pass overhead

Key Visual Moments

S2Grainy DV cam footage of an airport security queue, then the tape rewinds and images blur past before clicking to play from the beginning.
S4Calum's frozen DV-cam grin dissolves into the purple-blue of dusk as a plane streaks overhead and the MAIN TITLE appears.
S132Calum, dressed in his rave clothing, waves goodbye with the camera, takes two deep breaths, then opens double doors onto the dark crowded rave and steps inside.

plane

The interior of a passenger plane in mid-flight, seen as grainy DV footage of Sophie at the window and Calum behind a guidebook.

INT1 scene

DAY

Set Requirements

•Plane cabin window seats
•DV-cam grade lighting

Key Visual Moments

S3On grainy DV cam, 11-year-old Sophie pulls faces by the plane window while Calum hides behind a Turkey guidebook, only his serious eyes peeking out.

transfer bus

A packed late-night holiday transfer coach from the airport, full of families, teens, and couples; the tour rep at the front with a faulty microphone.

INT2 scenes

DUSKNIGHT

Set Requirements

•Coach interior with overhead lights and PA system
•Practical faulty microphone
•Background holiday passengers

Key Visual Moments

S5A dead battery is passed hand to hand up the packed holiday coach until it reaches Calum, his arm in a plaster cast from elbow to knuckles.
S6Sophie sleeps nestled against Calum's shoulder, his broken arm resting over her with effortless intimacy as families are called off the bus.

hotel street

The dusty street and five-or-six-metre path separating the scaffolded Türk Hotel from the upscale Ocean Park Resort; lined later with the public-beach approach.

EXT7 scenes

DAYNIGHT

Set Requirements

•Two facing hotel facades (Greek-columned resort vs scaffolded hotel)
•Dusty roadway
•Paraglider sky element

Key Visual Moments

S7Belinda mistakes Sophie for Calum's little sister; he quietly corrects 'My daughter, actually,' and father and daughter share a private, well-worn glance.
S8As the bus pulls away, Calum and Sophie overlap each other mimicking Belinda's 'Torremolinos' and dissolve into laughter at their hotel entrance.
S19Sophie points up at a drifting cloud of paragliders as she and Calum cross the narrow path between their hotel and the Ocean Park Resort.
S24Laughing hysterically and hand in hand, they sprint across the street; Sophie trips and Calum scoops her up and carries her into the Türk Hotel.
S41As Sophie tears through the 'she sells sea shells' tongue twister, Calum lifts his shirt to reveal the red, hand-print-shaped sunburn on his back.
S59To a loud honk, Calum crosses the road nonchalantly, narrowly missing a departing tour bus.
S122Moonlight glints off the distant ocean as Calum and Sophie walk back toward their hotel and the sound of a party drifts in.

türk hotel

The modest, partly scaffolded hotel where Calum and Sophie stay: reception with a wicker couch and hotel dog, their single-bed room with fold-out, the balcony over the pool, bathroom, corridor, dining room, poolside and grounds.

BOTH54 scenes

DAYNIGHTDAWNDUSK

Set Requirements

•Scaffolded facade with active construction (drilling, falling tile)
•Hotel room with single bed plus fold-out spring bed and digital clock
•Balcony with railing over a 3-story drop (rigged for stunt)
•Bathroom with bathtub and infinity-effect angled mirrors
•Reception with wicker couch, bell, magazine/erotic-paperback table
•Poolside with sun beds, umbrellas, bar
•Dining/disco area capable of rave-colour disco lighting
•Resident hotel dog and stray kitten

Key Visual Moments

S9Waiting at the unmanned desk, Sophie leafs through a worn erotic paperback from the lobby table as the hotel dog flops at her feet.
S10Sophie lies sprawled asleep and fully clothed on the single bed while Calum sits on its edge and picks up the phone.
S11Hampered by his cast, Calum fumbles the knots of sleeping Sophie's laces, then freezes mid-stand clutching something he has just retrieved from a jacket pocket.
S12On the scaffolded balcony Calum struggles to light a crumpled cigarette one-handed, then loses himself in his Walkman, arms loose, as if somewhere else.
S13Calum sits perched on the balcony railing, legs dangling over a three-story drop, watched from inside through a gap in the curtains.
S14At dawn the clang of metal on scaffolding and drilling begins again as a hotel employee opens up the poolside sun beds.
S15Sophie still clothed and Calum in boxers lie in identical face-down positions, arms above their heads, as building work drones outside.
S16On overexposed DV cam, Sophie tries to surf-stand on a lilo in the pool, topples, then flips it and submerges herself fully.
S17Sophie holds her breath underwater, eyes forced open, as the empty lilo floats above her and Calum's voice calls down.
S18Calum carefully smooths high-factor lotion onto Sophie's back, leaving a faint hand print, while the Portuguese family sets up across the pool.
S25Awake on the narrow fold-out bed, Calum rewinds and rewatches Sophie's DV-cam tribute, then throws a t-shirt over the red glow of the 3:07 clock; it slides back to the floor.
S27Calum lies in the bathtub as the shower beats down on his chest and the water level slowly rises around him.
S28A wet cloth over his face, Calum breathes in until a concave dome forms over his mouth, a makeshift meditation interrupted by Sophie's knock.
S37What looks like a real struggle is Calum gravely teaching Sophie a wrist-release self-defense move, pulling free a little too forcefully.
S38Calum gently dabs face cleanser onto Sophie's closed eyelids as she sits cross-legged, asking why the self-defense matters.
S39Underwater, Calum photographs Sophie holding her breath, then poses for her before they rise together, legs treading water in frame.
S40Lying in identical poses with arms shielding their eyes, Sophie tells Calum she likes that they 'share the same sky' even when apart.
S44Calum perches on the tub edge soaking his casted arm in a bucket, peeling away a loosening strip of plaster as Sophie asks if it hurt when he fell.
S45On the bed with the untouched gift book at her side, Sophie flips a teen magazine and asks Calum, off in the bathroom, why he and Mum still say 'love you.'
S46Hacking at the cast with tiny nail scissors, Calum cuts himself; blood streams down his arm and disperses in the bucket against the dissolving plaster.
S47In a wide two-shot spanning bedroom and bathroom, Sophie reluctantly opens the gift book while Calum stares down at blood dropping into the bucket.
S61Dressed for the evening but not really reading her magazine, Sophie admits to Calum through the wall that she feels 'a bit down or something.'
S62Between angled mirrors that multiply his image to infinity, Calum abruptly spits at his own reflection as Sophie describes the feeling of crashing and sinking.
S63Sunrise light creeps into the bathroom revealing the spit, now dried, on the mirror over the sound of distant drilling.
S68In the post-lunch hush over the empty pool, Calum reluctantly lets Sophie go off with the older teens for an hour as Andréa and Marcia play nearby.
S70Calum practices Tai Chi in the bedroom trying to hold onto calm, fails, grabs his wallet, and leaves.
S76Tidying the room alone, Sophie hides a risqué cocktail stirrer between an activity book and the erotic novel she took from the lobby, secreting away her grown-up finds.
S77Sophie interviews Calum on DV cam playing on the TV, asking what he thought at 11 he'd be doing at 31; he sits at the edge of frame, only his lower body visible, and won't answer.
S78Over a beer and a worn chess set on the busy balcony, Calum lets Sophie take a huge winced gulp as she asks if he'll ever move back to Scotland.
S79Calum holds Sophie in a tight hug, her legs wrapped around his waist, telling her he never really felt like he belonged in Edinburgh.
S80Tucking Sophie in, Calum tells her she can live wherever she wants and be whoever she wants as the camera pans across to his empty bed.
S81Calum passes the families laughing at the bar and pool on his way out into the night.
S84The camera tracks down an empty hotel corridor past closed doors to an opening that looks out over the dark street, glimmering with uncertain lights.
S85Under a bright blue sky the empty pool is marked only by early risers' beach towels as the hotel dog chases its tail on the path between the two hotels.
S86Calum stands tall and perfectly still on top of the balcony railing, his back to camera, facing the pool as paragliders fall in the sky above.
S87Over breakfast a hollow-eyed Calum murmurs to himself; Sophie jokes about the 'three signs of madness' and turns his open palm over, finding it not hairy.
S93Calum rewatches Sophie's 'one-armed Calum Aaron Patterson' DV tribute but doesn't smile this time; he snaps the screen shut and stands.
S100Sophie stands outside the locked hotel room door knocking again and again, met only with silence.
S101Sophie calls a small 'Hello?' into the empty reception, waits, and gets no answer.
S102Through a cracked storage-hut door Sophie watches, entranced, as Toby and the redhead Alex kiss slowly, one hand cupped behind the other's head.
S103Sophie has fallen asleep on the wicker-backed reception couch when the receptionist softly wakes her with a 'Miss.'
S104Watched from a distance by the receptionist, Sophie slots the key card until the light flicks red then green and quietly pushes the handle down.
S105Finding Calum sprawled naked across the bed taking heavy, uneven breaths, Sophie quietly drapes the sheet over him and drops onto the fold-out bed.
S106The camera pushes in on Calum then pans down to the floor, transitioning on the movement.
S109On DV cam, Calum films sleeping Sophie's quietly twitching eyelids until the too-loud phone rings; he drops the camera and it records only wrinkled sheets.
S117Naked on the bed with his head in his hands and back to camera, Calum loses the fight against tears and sobs, his whole upper body convulsing.
S118Sophie and the Portuguese sisters take turns stroking a stray kitten purring on Andréa's knee, the three of them giggling.
S123A disco light bathes the Türk Hotel dance floor in the same colour as the rave as Calum, refusing to dance alone, pulls a mortified Sophie toward the crowd.
S125On the dance floor Calum reappears, his face lit up and emphatically alive, beckoning Sophie, who lightheartedly says 'Stop' and pushes him off.
S127Calum lifts Sophie by the arms and spins her around, her head pressed against his chest as she acquiesces for a second.
S129Calum sets Sophie back on her feet, both faces euphoric, and she playfully pushes him off on the turn of the strobe.
S136Calum's cigarette end rests forgotten on the roof edge of the floor below their room.
S137An unattended hose gushes water on the ground while Sophie's lost bag blends unseen into the lush greenery.
S138A fallen stack of postcards reveals one from Calum to Sophie reading simply: 'I love you very much. Never forget that.'

ocean park resort

The large all-inclusive resort across the street: Greek-columned foyer, meeting room, gaming/bar area with arcade motorbikes and pool table, lunch and dining areas, amphitheatre, toilets, pool, covered pool, and landscaped grounds.

BOTH30 scenes

DAYNIGHTDUSK

Set Requirements

•Marble foyer with directional signpost and pay phones by reflective elevator
•Gaming/bar area with two arcade motorbike machines and a pool table
•Outdoor dining patio with performance stage
•Amphitheatre with karaoke screen and microphone
•Public toilets with a missing-lock cubicle
•Large main pool plus a separate covered pool with skylight
•Landscaped grounds with low ground lights and storage hut

Key Visual Moments

S20Sophie snatches the cash from Calum's wallet before it is fully out and sprints off down the corridor toward the gaming area.
S21Calum realizes his watch reads 4pm against the wall clock's 5pm, mutters 'Fuck sake, Calum,' and sits defeated to reset it.
S22Sophie grips the arcade motorbike's handlebars in fierce concentration while behind her the older teens roughhouse around the pool table.
S23Mid-conversation about Calum's plans, the pair conspiratorially lob bread rolls toward the tour reps' stage show and sprint laughing for the exit.
S29On the pay phone to her mum, Sophie watches Calum practice a slow Tai Chi form in the reflective elevator doors and calls him a 'weird slow motion ninja'.
S30Sophie finds both arcade motorbikes occupied by two drunk men in their 50s roaring as the machines thud side to side under their weight.
S31Sophie sneaks up behind Calum as he hangs up the phone to her mum; he jumps in fright, then flips her upside down by the heels and carries her off.
S32Over chips, Calum quizzes Sophie on world capitals and she rattles them off until a passing waiter coolly corrects 'The capital of Turkey is Ankara, not Istanbul.'
S33Sophie races the arcade motorbike back into first place against Michael but just misses the leaderboard, huffing in disappointment.
S34Calum coaches Sophie's pool technique and she sinks a tricky cushion shot just as the older teens she admires walk into the bar.
S35Through a missing-lock hole in the cubicle door, Sophie spies on teenagers Maxine and Lucy trading explicit gossip, then overhears 'she's, like, nine.'
S36Sophie pots three balls off the break against the older boys; Olly blurts 'Fucking hell, Sophie...impressive' and winks, and she glows at being included.
S58Michael slips a British ten-pence coin into the arcade bike to spark up '1 CREDIT' and offers Sophie another, introducing himself by name.
S60Leaning into the same turn, Sophie and Michael tilt until their arms nearly touch before he boosts past her at the final approach.
S69Sophie studies the strap-marks and bra straps of the more tanned, older Laura at the bar, then notices the warm strip of sweat Laura leaves on the plastic stool.
S71Sophie quietly cheats at pool, fishing the white ball back out of the pocket, then loses her nerve and returns it as the teens trade slang about 'snaking.'
S72Sophie shoves Scott into the pool on cue, but hesitates a beat too long to join the spontaneous fully clothed plunge and jumps with a tentative 'Woooo!'
S73Underwater, Sophie sees Laura and Olly entwined; surfacing, she looks down at her own flat chest beneath her translucent soaked t-shirt.
S74Drenched and unnoticed, Sophie quietly slides out of the pool and leaves the group behind.
S88Dozing on a sun bed, a half-written 'Dear Nana...' postcard slips onto Sophie's stomach as she and Calum lie side by side, each lost in their own headphones.
S89In a competitive game of water polo a wound-up man slams the ball so hard it hits Sophie square in the face.
S90As blood streams from Sophie's nose, an ashen-faced Calum panics until a calm 50s woman steps in, sets Sophie up with a tissue, and tells him to put his head between his knees.
S91After a rough day, Calum and Sophie eat dessert in heavy silence as entertainer Tony croons on stage and Calum questions why she's wearing her bikini.
S92Sophie sings 'Losing My Religion' alone on the karaoke stage, waving for Calum to join her; he refuses, and she endures the whole song growing visibly self-conscious.
S94Sophie hovers at the edge of the teens' drinking game; Olly barely turns to ask 'Where's your dad?' before going back to his shot, and she's left out.
S95Drunk and leaving the next day, Laura wriggles the luminous green all-inclusive wristband off her own wrist and slips it onto Sophie's, the hairs on Sophie's arm standing on end.
S96Lost in the dark grounds, Sophie is grabbed from behind and instinctively executes Calum's wrist-release move, throwing her attacker, Michael, flat on his back.
S98Legs dangling in the turquoise glow of the covered pool, Sophie and Michael share a first kiss while, reflected in the water, six silhouettes peer down and drum on the skylight.
S119A crowd gathers as Sophie lines up a trick shot in the pool tournament semi-final against Toby, while a woman needles Calum about whether she even goes to school.
S120Calm and unrushed, Sophie pots her final ball then the black to win the tournament against Steve as the crowd erupts and Calum beams with pride.

hamam

A Turkish bath with an empty marble steam room and an adjoining cold shower.

INT2 scenes

DAY

Set Requirements

•Steam room with practical steam
•Cold shower area

Key Visual Moments

S42As two older men in speedos settle uncomfortably close in the empty steam room, a visibly tense Calum quietly moves Sophie to his side, then rises to leave.
S43Calum coaxes a shivering Sophie under the freezing cold shower, counting to ten, then declaring her four-and-a-half-second dash 'technically' short.

dive boat

A two-masted schooner gulet (the 'Yali 3') with an open deck, interior cabin, a tiny toilet, and stairs to the top deck, used for the scuba excursion.

BOTH4 scenes

DAY

Set Requirements

•Two-masted gulet with bow, white-painted railing, air-tank rack
•Cramped interior cabin and tiny toilet
•Wetsuit and dive-gear staging area

Key Visual Moments

S48On the deck of the two-masted gulet cutting through dark sea, Sophie taps the white railing in time with her tired, smiling father.
S49From the sinking mask's POV, Calum dives and strains underwater for Sophie's lost mask, fingers reaching, but it stays a hair beyond his grasp.
S50Wrestling into an unforgiving wetsuit, Calum shares a quiet exchange with diver Onur and admits 'Can't see myself at 40... Surprised I made it to 30.'
S54On DV cam, Sophie gives a giddy faux-reporter tour of the Yali 3, then privately whispers that Dad 'told a porky pie' about having a diving license.

dive site

Open sea and the reef below for the scuba dive: surface water for the briefing and the underwater coral reef where the seahorse appears.

EXT5 scenes

DAY

Set Requirements

•Open-water surface staging
•Coral reef for underwater photography
•Live seahorse
•Deep-water descent capability

Key Visual Moments

S51Floating at the surface, Onur drills the dive hand-signals and Calum and Sophie answer 'Stop' and 'Up' in unison, racing to call it first.
S52The three lift their deflator hoses overhead, expel the air from their jackets, and gradually sink beneath the surface together.
S53Onur coils a seahorse's tail around Sophie's outstretched finger; behind her mask her eyes bulge with wonder as Calum, reflected in her gaze, photographs her.
S55Alone and fully kitted in scuba gear, Calum descends deeper and deeper until darkness entirely envelops him.
S135Sophie's lost mask continues to sink ever deeper toward the depths of the sea.

rooftop cafe

An outdoor rooftop cafe with floor cushions behind low tables, paragliders descending overhead and a holiday couple smoking nargileh.

EXT1 scene

DAY

Set Requirements

•Floor-cushion seating and low tables
•Nargileh setup
•Open-sky paraglider element

Key Visual Moments

S57Cross-legged behind a low table, Sophie blows imaginary cigarette smoke in Calum's face as he flinches at her question about visiting Nana, then sidesteps her future.

town shops

An undeveloped strip of shops, stalls, cafes and small restaurants toward the public beach, including a postcard stand, a hair braiding stall, and a taxi stand; nightclub flyers handed out here.

EXT4 scenes

DAYNIGHT

Set Requirements

•Postcard stand
•Hair braiding stall with stool
•Taxi stand
•Street vendors and flyer distribution

Key Visual Moments

S64Walking toward the public beach past stalls, Calum offers to buy Sophie something and she jokingly asks for a PlayStation.
S65Calum flatly refuses to let Sophie pierce her ears, warning grimly that the first thing an attacker would do is rip the earrings from her lobes.
S66As a stall owner weaves a coloured braid into Sophie's hair, a woman asks Calum to photograph her, then double-takes on realizing Sophie is his.
S97Calum picks a still-lit cigarette butt off the ground for a last drag as he walks down toward the shore past a taxi stand.

carpet shop

A carpet shop with huge handcrafted carpets hanging ceiling to floor and stacks laid out for viewing, with a staircase at one end; the source of the rug seen later in New York.

INT2 scenes

DAY

Set Requirements

•Walls of hanging handwoven carpets
•Stacks of rugs for display
•Tea service
•The hero carpet (matched to the New York apartment)

Key Visual Moments

S67Alone before a beautiful hanging carpet, Calum runs his hand along the wool and is overcome, his upper body shuddering as he fights back tears.
S75Calum's gaze travels across the intricate patterns of the carpet he admired, and he shakes hands with the salesman over a cup of tea.

noiz nightclub

A local nightclub ('NOIZ') where Calum smokes, drinks and dances in silhouette with a woman during the music sequence.

INT1 scene

NIGHT

Set Requirements

•Silhouette-friendly club lighting
•Bar and dance area

Key Visual Moments

S82In silhouette, Calum smokes and drinks, then dances with a woman who may be Belinda, and they kiss before a cut to black.

new york apartment

A small, neat, open-plan New York City apartment, home to Adult Sophie: a bed, the Turkish carpet, a record player, a guitar, a stack of children's books, a couch, and a TV; sodium-vapour light through the curtains.

INT3 scenes

NIGHT

Set Requirements

•Open-plan apartment dressing with the matched Turkish carpet
•Record player, guitar, children's books
•TV and DV camera setup for the framing device
•Sodium-vapour exterior light through curtains
•Off-screen infant

Key Visual Moments

S107The camera lands on the same Turkish carpet from the shop; Adult Sophie's toes trace its pattern in sodium-vapour light as a partner half-asleep wishes her happy birthday.
S131As 11-year-old Sophie's airport farewell plays on the TV, the camera pans 180 degrees to reveal Adult Sophie on the couch, holding the camera, meeting her younger self's gaze.
S133An infant cries off screen; Adult Sophie rises from the couch and the camera continues to pan once she's gone, transitioning on the 360 one last time.

excursion bus

A dawn excursion coach identical to the airport transfer bus, trundling along the motorway with sleeping passengers and a twist air vent.

INT1 scene

DAWN

Set Requirements

•Coach interior matched to the transfer bus
•Practical overhead twist air vent
•Sleeping background passengers

Key Visual Moments

S110As the sky shifts pink to yellow, Sophie tries on Calum's sunglasses while he feigns sleep, then wishes her father a quiet 'Happy birthday, Dad.'

roadside stop

A roadside snack stop where the excursion bus pauses; Sophie and Calum practice Tai Chi behind the bus.

EXT1 scene

DAY

Set Requirements

•Roadside snack kiosk
•Open ground behind the parked bus

Key Visual Moments

S111Behind the parked bus, Sophie watches carefully and imitates Calum's elementary Tai Chi movements.

cold spring

A small natural cold pool where holidaymakers compete to endure the freezing water, surrounded by natural environment.

EXT2 scenes

DAY

Set Requirements

•Natural cold-water spring pool
•Surrounding natural landscape
•Crowd of bathers

Key Visual Moments

S112After men compete to endure the freezing spring, Sophie hands Calum her watch and submerges herself calmly, asking him to time her until three minutes.
S113Calum wraps a beaming Sophie in a towel and tells her, 'You're so much stronger than I am.'

mud baths

A log-fenced grey-brown muddy pool crammed with tourists, smelling of sulphur, with lush green foliage and a small raft tethered at the shoreline.

EXT2 scenes

DAY

Set Requirements

•Log-fenced mud pool with usable mud
•Sulphur-smell environment dressing
•Lush foliage backdrop
•Small tethered raft

Key Visual Moments

S114Apologizing for passing out on her bed, Calum finally smears mud across Sophie's face in a tender ritual: each cheek, forehead, chin, and a stripe down her nose.
S115On a small raft tethered to the mud-bath shore, Sophie tells Calum she kissed Michael; he relaxes, then urges her she can always tell him anything, 'no secrets.'

amphitheatre at kaunos

An ancient stone amphitheatre with large stepped seating and a stage, where the tour group gathers and Sophie conducts the crowd.

EXT1 scene

DAY

Set Requirements

•Ancient stone amphitheatre with stepped seating and stage
•Large tour-group crowd

Key Visual Moments

S116On the ancient stone stage, Sophie whistles for the tour group's attention and conducts the whole crowd singing 'For he's a jolly good fellow' up to a shaded, distant Calum.

public beach

The public beach and sea: a low wall separating street from sand, near-pitch-black night water, and the sunset sand where Calum and Sophie sprint to the sea.

EXT2 scenes

NIGHTDUSK

Set Requirements

•Low wall between street and sand
•Open sea for a night swim (rigged for safety)
•Sunset beach for the closing image

Key Visual Moments

S99Stripped to his boxers, Calum walks calmly into the near pitch-black sea, wades through the foam, then lunges beyond it and disappears from sight.
S134At sunset on the Turkish sand, Calum and Sophie jump to their feet and sprint together toward the sea.

upmarket restaurant

A smarter restaurant where Sophie and Calum claim their 'romantic dinner for two' prize over a giant sundae, with a roving Polaroid photographer.

INT1 scene

NIGHT

Set Requirements

•Upscale dining-room dressing
•Polaroid photographer with practical instant camera

Key Visual Moments

S121A Polaroid of Calum crouched lovingly beside Sophie at their sundae develops face up on the table as she says it was 'the best holiday' and wishes they could stay longer.

road

An open road at sunset with mountains beyond, used as a final landscape insert.

EXT1 scene

DUSK

Set Requirements

•Open road with mountain backdrop at sunset

Key Visual Moments

S139The sun dips behind the mountains at sunset over an empty road.

Cast

SOPHIE

11 years old, a tomboy; boxy oversized t-shirts, football shorts, a 'No Fear' cap, ears that pull out and a gap between her front teeth. Sharp, observant, quick-witted.

Over a Turkish package holiday with her father, Sophie hovers at the threshold of adolescence, watching older teens and absorbing things she half-understands, while unknowingly registering her father's hidden despair.

102 scenes·8 wardrobe changes

CALUM

30 (turning 31), boyish until closely scrutinised, dark around the eyes; his right arm in a plaster cast from a fall. A loving, playful father privately weighed down by depression and money worries.

A young father struggling with depression masks his despair behind play and tenderness for his daughter across the holiday, his collapse mounting beneath the surface until he disappears into memory.

101 scenes·6 wardrobe changes

ADULT SOPHIE

Sophie at 31, in a warm crew neck jumper. Now a parent herself, living in a small New York apartment, she revisits her father through old DV footage and a recurring dream-rave.

Across recurring rave interludes and her present-day apartment, Adult Sophie tries to reach and hold the father she lost, finally grasping him in memory before returning to her own child.

11 scenes·2 wardrobe changes

BELINDA

Tanned tour rep in her early 20s, with a distinct high-pitched laugh; transferred in from Torremolinos, which she pronounces at speed.

The holiday's tour rep and source of a running family joke; possibly the woman Calum dances and kisses at the nightclub.

6 scenes·1 wardrobe changes

OLLY

15, a buzzcut blond, the de-facto leader of the older teen group.

The charismatic older teen whose attention Sophie craves, who alternately includes and casually overlooks her.

9 scenes·1 wardrobe changes

LAURA

15, with a fringe and high ponytail, growing more tanned over the holiday; table-tennis-bat stud earrings and a halter-neck bikini.

An older teen Sophie idolizes who, leaving the resort, gives Sophie her all-inclusive wristband in a passing act of kindness.

10 scenes·2 wardrobe changes

TOBY

An older teen in the resort group; later seen kissing Alex.

A member of the teen group whose secret tenderness with Alex Sophie witnesses, quietly resolving the holiday's thread about cruelty and queerness.

9 scenes·1 wardrobe changes

SCOTT

An older teen in the resort group, paired with Jane.

Part of the teen group, mostly coupled up with Jane.

7 scenes·1 wardrobe changes

JANE

An older teen in the resort group, paired with Scott.

Part of the teen group, mostly coupled up with Scott.

5 scenes·1 wardrobe changes

MICHAEL

A boy around Sophie's age, perhaps slightly older; meets her at the arcade motorbike game.

Sophie's holiday romance and first kiss, an age-appropriate counterpart to the older teens she watches.

5 scenes·1 wardrobe changes

ONUR

30, a Turkish dive instructor who has travelled and returned home; expecting a baby.

The dive instructor whose contentment and impending fatherhood quietly contrast with Calum's despair, prompting Calum's confession about not seeing 40.

4 scenes·1 wardrobe changes

ALEX

A seventeen-year-old redhead in the older teen circle.

An older teen later seen kissing Toby, the tender moment Sophie secretly witnesses.

2 scenes·1 wardrobe changes

MAXINE

A teenage girl, around 13/14, brashly worldly.

One of two teen girls whose explicit bathroom gossip Sophie overhears and who dismiss her as too young.

1 scenes·1 wardrobe changes

LUCY

A teenage girl, around 13/14, Maxine's friend.

One of two teen girls whose bathroom gossip Sophie overhears.

1 scenes·1 wardrobe changes

ANDRÉA

10, a Portuguese girl, first seen in a purple floral dress.

A younger Portuguese girl Sophie eventually befriends over a stray kitten.

3 scenes·1 wardrobe changes

MARCIA

5, Andréa's little sister, already in swimwear.

Andréa's small sister, part of the Portuguese family.

3 scenes·1 wardrobe changes

STEVE

Late 40s, Sophie's opponent in the pool tournament final.

The graceful adult Sophie beats to win the pool tournament.

1 scenes·1 wardrobe changes

TONY

Early 50s, ponytail, headset mic, glitter jacket; the resort's evening entertainer.

The resort lounge singer performing during a strained dinner.

1 scenes·1 wardrobe changes

WOMAN

A woman in her 50s at the Ocean Park pool who helps with Sophie's nosebleed; flirtatious and frank, she later questions Calum's parenting.

A bystander who steps in to help during the nosebleed and later needles Calum about how he raises Sophie.

2 scenes·1 wardrobe changes

RECEPTIONIST

The Türk Hotel's night receptionist.

Lets a locked-out, exhausted Sophie back into the room and gives the morning wake-up call.

3 scenes·1 wardrobe changes

SALESMAN

The carpet shop salesman who explains the rugs' stories and teaches Sophie the 'tea sugar ederim' pronunciation.

Sells Calum the carpet that later anchors Adult Sophie's apartment.

2 scenes·1 wardrobe changes

BARTENDER

The Türk Hotel poolside bartender who brings Calum a beer and Sophie a milkshake.

Serves drinks at the Türk Hotel pool.

1 scenes·1 wardrobe changes

OCEAN PARK BARTENDER 1

A bartender at the Ocean Park Resort gaming/bar area.

Serves Sophie and the teens at the resort bar, knowingly overlooking her borrowed wristband.

2 scenes·1 wardrobe changes

HOTEL EMPLOYEE

A Türk Hotel employee who opens and closes the poolside sun beds.

Tends the poolside at night and dawn while Calum watches.

2 scenes·1 wardrobe changes

WAITER

A waiter at the Ocean Park Resort; corrects Sophie that Ankara, not Istanbul, is the capital of Turkey.

Serves the pair at meals and offers a dry capital-cities correction.

3 scenes·1 wardrobe changes

JOHN

A boy around Sophie's age at the arcade, off to play volleyball.

A passing arcade kid, friend of Michael.

1 scenes·1 wardrobe changes

PHOTOGRAPHER

A restaurant photographer with a Polaroid camera.

Takes the keepsake Polaroid of Calum and Sophie at their tournament-prize dinner.

1 scenes·1 wardrobe changes

BURNT SCOTTISH MAN

A young burnt Scot, 21, lobster-red, at the mud baths.

A passing holidaymaker griping about the sulphur smell at the mud baths.

1 scenes·1 wardrobe changes

OVEREAGER MAN

A man around 30 in the water polo game who slams the ball into Sophie's face.

Accidentally injures Sophie during the water polo match.

1 scenes·1 wardrobe changes

DRIVER

A taxi driver eating a late-night snack and smoking at a taxi stand.

A background figure on Calum's solitary night walk.

1 scenes·1 wardrobe changes

AIRLINE EMPLOYEE

An airline employee escorting 11-year-old Sophie through the airport on the DV footage.

Accompanies young Sophie at the airport in the framing footage.

1 scenes·1 wardrobe changes

MAN

A holidaymaker on the dive boat who jokes about having peed in Calum's wetsuit.

A passing diver who needles Calum on the boat.

1 scenes·1 wardrobe changes

WOMAN (BRAIDING STALL)

A woman in her 40s who asks Calum to photograph her, not realising Sophie is his daughter.

A passing tourist who briefly mistakes Calum for unaccompanied.

1 scenes·1 wardrobe changes

STALL OWNER

The owner of the hair braiding stall who weaves a coloured braid into Sophie's hair.

Braids Sophie's hair at the town stall.

1 scenes·1 wardrobe changes

FATHER

A holidaying father who drags his young son from the waterslides, snapping that the day is ruined.

A background parent whose harshness contrasts with Calum's gentleness.

1 scenes·1 wardrobe changes

SON

A 5-year-old boy pulled away from the waterslides by his father.

A background child.

1 scenes·1 wardrobe changes

BOY 1

A teenage boy at the resort bar boasting about a teacher.

A bragging teen at the bar near the end of the holiday.

1 scenes·1 wardrobe changes

TWO DRUNK MEN

Two men in their 50s roaring on the arcade motorbikes.

Background drunks who occupy the arcade bikes.

1 scenes·1 wardrobe changes

TWO OLDER MEN

Two older men in speedos who enter the hamam steam room and sit uncomfortably close to Sophie.

Background men whose presence makes Calum protectively tense.

1 scenes·1 wardrobe changes

THREE MEN

Three men, 20s-40s, competing to endure the freezing cold spring.

Holidaymakers whose endurance contest Sophie surpasses.

1 scenes·1 wardrobe changes

TOUR REP

Resort tour reps who run the karaoke and entertainment and announce acts.

Background entertainment staff who call Sophie and Calum to perform and set up activities.

3 scenes·1 wardrobe changes

WOMAN (NEW YORK)

Adult Sophie's partner, half-asleep in the New York apartment, who wishes her happy birthday.

Adult Sophie's present-day partner and co-parent.

1 scenes·1 wardrobe changes

HOLIDAY COUPLE

A couple smoking nargileh on the far side of the rooftop cafe.

Background figures at the rooftop cafe.

1 scenes·1 wardrobe changes

TWO FEMALE FRIENDS

Two women reading coffee-ground fortunes at the rooftop cafe, speaking Turkish.

Background figures whose fortune-reading colours the cafe scene.

1 scenes·1 wardrobe changes

COUPLE

A couple in their mid-40s drinking at the Türk Hotel bar who smile knowingly at Calum.

Background guests who knowingly acknowledge Calum.

1 scenes·1 wardrobe changes

Production Design · Props

DV camcorder

Hero

10 scenes

The film's central object and framing device; its pull-out screen, red record light, and grainy footage recur. Multiple period-correct late-90s MiniDV units; matched footage playback on TV.

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plaster cast

Hero

9 scenes

Calum's right-arm cast from elbow to knuckles; visibly soaked, peeled, and cut off over several scenes. Needs build-up and breakaway/removal stages plus blood when cut.

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Turkish carpet

Hero

4 scenes

The exact rug Calum admires and buys; must match precisely between the carpet shop and Adult Sophie's New York apartment. Hero continuity prop.

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Walkman

Hero

5 scenes

Shared headphones recur as a motif of intimacy; period-correct cassette Walkman, multiples likely.

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cigarette

Hero

5 scenes

Calum's smoking thread; crumpled cigarettes, a found lit butt, and an abandoned cigarette end. Continuity of his habit.

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hotel matchbook

Hero

2 scenes

Flimsy hotel matchbook; later found with three matches missing, a quiet trace of Calum's nights. Continuity prop.

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sun tan lotion

Hero

3 scenes

High-factor lotion; leaves the hand-print sunburn on Calum's back. Needs to read as a viscous cream and pay off as a 'temporary tattoo'.

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milkshake with fancy stirrer

Hero

3 scenes

Cocktail-umbrella milkshake with palm-tree and risqué naked-woman stirrers; one stirrer becomes a secret Sophie hides away.

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diving mask

Hero

5 scenes

Two new boxed masks; Sophie's is lost overboard and seen sinking in an interstitial. Needs a sinking/POV double and a magenta replacement.

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wristwatch / stopwatch

Hero

3 scenes

Calum's watch he resets after missing the meeting; later used to time Sophie's cold-spring breath-hold. Continuity prop.

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gift book

Hero

3 scenes

The 'hard to understand' book Calum gives Sophie to read; sits mostly unopened, a quiet motif of his hopes for her.

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luminous green all-inclusive wristband

Hero

2 scenes

Laura's resort wristband, passed to Sophie; a token of crossing into the older teens' world. Continuity prop.

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arcade motorbike machine

Hero

5 scenes

Period arcade racing cabinet; recurring meeting point with Michael. Needs working screen race graphics and seat.

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pool table and cue

Hero

7 scenes

Central to Sophie's tournament arc; cue, chalk, triangle rack, and balls. Needs reliable trick-shot rigging for the cushion shot and final black.

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evil eye bracelet

1 scene

Sophie's loosely threaded bracelet she chews in the steam room.

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Polaroid photo

Hero

1 scene

Instant photo of Calum and Sophie that develops on camera; a memory keepsake. Needs a slow-develop practical or VFX.

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postcards

Hero

3 scenes

Holiday postcards Sophie writes; one from Calum reads 'I love you very much. Never forget that.' Hero for the closing note.

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checked red and white dress

2 scenes

Sophie's dress worn over her bikini; wardrobe continuity across two nights.

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erotic paperback novel

2 scenes

Worn paperback from the reception table that Sophie eyes and later squirrels away.

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sunglasses

1 scene

Calum's chest-pocket sunglasses with sharply pointed legs Sophie tries on; tied to his deadpan story.

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cocktail stirrer (naked-woman silhouette)

1 scene

Fluorescent orange risqué stirrer Sophie hides in her rucksack.

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DK's Guide to Turkey guidebook

1 scene

Travel guidebook Calum hides behind on the plane DV footage.

scuba gear

Hero

5 scenes

Wetsuits, BCD jackets, regulators, air tanks, deflator hoses; functional dive kit for surface and underwater work.

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seahorse

Hero

1 scene

Live seahorse wrapped around Sophie's finger underwater; the dive's emotional high point. Animal handling required.

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bucket of water

3 scenes

Bucket Calum soaks his casted arm in; blood disperses in it during the cast removal.

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Coco Pops

1 scene

Individual cereal box at breakfast; Calum chides 'those are pure sugar.'

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dinner voucher

2 scenes

'A romantic dinner for two' prize won at the pool tournament and redeemed at the restaurant.

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chess board

1 scene

Worn hotel chess set used during the Blur music sequence on the balcony.

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nightclub flyer

1 scene

'NOIZ - DISCOUNT SHOTS ALL NITE' flyer; plants the club Calum visits.

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lilo

2 scenes

Inflatable pool float Sophie tries to surf-stand on and flips.

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Poster Concepts

Character-Driven

The Father Behind the Lens

“The man holding the camera is the one you can't quite see.”

A young father in his early thirties sits on the edge of a hotel balcony at dusk, holding a small camcorder up to one eye, pointed off-frame toward the viewer. We see most of his face but his expression is unreadable behind the device. His casted arm rests in his lap. Wide negative space of purple-blue sky above for title.

Character-Driven

Girl at the Threshold

“She was old enough to watch and too young to understand.”

An eleven-year-old girl in an oversized t-shirt and a bucket cap pushed back, leaning against a tiled poolside wall, looking off-frame at something just out of view, half-lit by harsh holiday sun. Her face holds curiosity she can't name. Lower third left empty and blown-out white for title.

Character-Driven

Two Sophies, One Strobe

“The same person, twenty years apart, reaching for the same man.”

A single packed dark crowd, frozen mid-strobe. In the same spot stand two figures overlapping at the edges: a small girl and a grown woman in a warm crew-neck jumper, both with eyes shut. The strobe whites out everything but their two faces. Pure black surround.

Symbolic/Metaphorical

The Sinking Mask

A child's diving mask drifts downward through deep blue-green water, getting smaller, a reaching hand fading at the very top edge of the frame just failing to catch it. Most of the poster is empty deepening water below. Light rays thin out toward black.

Symbolic/Metaphorical

Temporary Tattoo

“Some of what they leave on us only shows up later.”

A close crop of a man's sunburned back, where a pale hand-print is pressed into red, peeling skin: the negative shape left by sunscreen smoothed on by a smaller hand. Soft daylight. The print sits slightly off-center; clean skin and warm air fill the rest.

Symbolic/Metaphorical

Three Matches Gone

“Count the small things and you start to see him.”

A flimsy hotel matchbook lying open on a bedside surface, three matches torn out and missing, the gaps obvious. Beside it, slightly out of focus, the faint red glow of a digital clock. Everything else dark, the small objects spotlit like evidence.

Scene-Based

The Empty Railing

A man stands tall and perfectly still on top of a hotel balcony railing, back to camera, facing a calm pool far below at early dawn. Scaffolding frames one side. Above him, tiny paragliders drift down through a pale sky. He is small in a large, quiet, vertiginous frame.

Scene-Based

Seahorse on a Fingertip

“For one held breath, the whole world was just the two of them.”

Underwater, a girl in a dive mask extends one finger; a tiny seahorse curls its tail around it. Behind her mask her eyes are wide with awe. Reflected faintly in the glass of her mask, a second masked figure photographs her. Soft blue gloom around them.

Scene-Based

Karaoke Spotlight, Alone

“She sang the whole song waiting for him to stand up.”

A girl alone on a small resort amphitheatre stage, microphone in hand, caught in a single harsh spotlight, one arm half-raised waving toward an empty seat in the dark audience. The vast dark seating swallows everything else. A faint karaoke lyric glow off one edge.

Minimalist/Typographic

Share the Same Sky

“Even apart, they were under the same one.”

An almost entirely empty pale sky. Far down in the lower edge, two figures lie flat side by side, arms shielding their eyes, tiny against the immensity above. A lone paraglider hangs high in the corner. The sky does almost all the work.

Minimalist/Typographic

Rewind / Play

“A holiday filmed by an eleven-year-old, watched back by the woman she became.”

A black field carrying only the faint blue timecode and REC dot of a camcorder viewfinder overlay, with a barely-there grainy still of a girl pulling a face frozen behind it. The interface graphics are the design; the image is a ghost.

Minimalist/Typographic

Never Forget That

“The plainest words he ever wrote her.”

A single tipped-over stack of holiday postcards on a dim hotel-room surface, only the top one face-up and legible, its handwritten message catching a sliver of light. The rest fan into shadow. Almost the whole frame is dark room and tabletop.

Mood/Atmospheric

Aftersun Skin

No figures. A full-frame wash of late-afternoon holiday light: sun-pinked skin tones bleeding into bleached towel white and pool turquoise, soft and overexposed, like the warmth felt through closed eyelids on a sun bed. A faint blurred edge of a balcony rail bottom-corner anchors it.

Mood/Atmospheric

The Drowning Dance

“Where the music ends and the memory begins.”

A blurred dark frame where rave-strobe violet and a hotel disco light bleed into the same color, a man's figure smeared mid-motion across the center, arms loose, almost dissolving. You can't tell if he is dancing or sinking. Heavy motion blur, deep black edges closing in.

Collage/Ensemble

The Tape, Replayed

“A whole summer, scrubbed back frame by frame.”

A loose vertical band of overlapping grainy DV-cam frames running through the center, like footage scrubbed back and forth: a girl at a plane window, a hand-print sunburn, an empty balcony railing, a seahorse, a karaoke stage, a sinking mask. At the bottom, an adult woman in a crew-neck jumper sits watching a small glowing TV, her back to us, the same frames reflected in the screen.