Nothing is lost
Nothing is lost Florian GUILLOT
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1 / EXT. STREET OF PARIS – AFTERNOON
It's a sunny afternoon in spring, in a pedestrian street of Paris. A man dressed in dirty clothes full of holes is sleeping on a cardboard along a building wall. He is mid-length greasy gray haired, has a bushy beard and yellowish gray face carved deep wrinkles: he is about fifty years old. We can hear the homeless breathing. Suddenly a woman in a panic falls down on him, rushes over and runs off. The man wakes up lost and misunderstanding, the sound of her breathing suddenly giving way to the tumult of the surrounding panic. Around him many passers run, some cry while others are strangely quiet.
Sitting up straight, the man sees right off the smartphone lost by the woman who fell on him.
He picks it up and while standing up discovers a web page showing the impact of an asteroid that will end all life on earth. Raising his head, looking tense and inquiring, he is slightly pushed by a man hitting the road.
Scanning the area looking for answers, he sees a television set in a cafe nearby; he moves forward and discovers some news flash stating the end nearby once more. Dropping his arm that holds the phone, he looks around again, takes a look at his cardboard and his things.
A man with a shaved eyebrow and a shovel on his shoulder passes by, the homeless keeps watching him then he disappears at the corner of the street. The street people takes a small key out of his pocket, takes a deep breath and squeezes it in his hand. 2 / INT. UNKNOWN PLACE – AFTERNOON
The locker door opens showing the tired face of the dosser. He takes his backpack out of the locker and throws it on his shoulder, leaving stuck a black edged envelope at the bottom.
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3 / INT. PUBLIC BATHS HALL – AFTERNOON
The man pushes the door of public baths, nobody is there; at the counter, the phone is picked up and put on the desk. 4 / INT. PUBLIC BATHS – AFTERNOON
The man takes a shower, cleaning step by step the dirt that is on him. The naked man is standing in front of a sink gets a family picture stuck in the mirror. The photo shows him with a woman to the left who is kissing him on one cheek, and to the right is a little girl kissing him on the other cheek. He thins his beard out with scissors, then shaves it. The man opens his backpack.
5 / EXT. EIFFEL TOWER – AFTERNOON
The man is dressed up with a blue night three-piece suit and has his backpack over his shoulder: he climbs the stairs up to the third floor of the Eiffel Tower. He puts his backpack down and pulls a teddy out of it.
Facing the Military Academy, he takes the family picture out of the chest pocket of the jacket, gazing at it while squeezing the cuddly toy with a sad but soothed look. Suddenly, he realizes that a woman and her little boy are sitting against the wall to his left.
The mother is smiling sadly at him and so does he, then, turning towards the little boy, smiles at him a little more joyfully. The child answers him with a joyful smile. Then the man hands the boy his teddy.
The child holds it, smiling more and more. The man sits down with them.
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1 / EXT. STREET OF PARIS – AFTERNOON
It's a sunny afternoon in spring, in a pedestrian street of Paris. A man dressed in dirty clothes full of holes is sleeping on a cardboard along a building wall. He is mid-length greasy gray haired, has a bushy beard and yellowish gray face carved deep wrinkles: he is about fifty years old. We can hear the homeless breathing. Suddenly a woman in a panic falls down on him, rushes over and runs off. The man wakes up lost and misunderstanding, the sound of her breathing suddenly giving way to the tumult of the surrounding panic. Around him many passers run, some cry while others are strangely quiet.
Sitting up straight, the man sees right off the smartphone lost by the woman who fell on him.
He picks it up and while standing up discovers a web page showing the impact of an asteroid that will end all life on earth. Raising his head, looking tense and inquiring, he is slightly pushed by a man hitting the road.
Scanning the area looking for answers, he sees a television set in a cafe nearby; he moves forward and discovers some news flash stating the end nearby once more. Dropping his arm that holds the phone, he looks around again, takes a look at his cardboard and his things.
A man with a shaved eyebrow and a shovel on his shoulder passes by, the homeless keeps watching him then he disappears at the corner of the street. The street people takes a small key out of his pocket, takes a deep breath and squeezes it in his hand. 2 / INT. UNKNOWN PLACE – AFTERNOON
The locker door opens showing the tired face of the dosser. He takes his backpack out of the locker and throws it on his shoulder, leaving stuck a black edged envelope at the bottom.
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3 / INT. PUBLIC BATHS HALL – AFTERNOON
The man pushes the door of public baths, nobody is there; at the counter, the phone is picked up and put on the desk. 4 / INT. PUBLIC BATHS – AFTERNOON
The man takes a shower, cleaning step by step the dirt that is on him. The naked man is standing in front of a sink gets a family picture stuck in the mirror. The photo shows him with a woman to the left who is kissing him on one cheek, and to the right is a little girl kissing him on the other cheek. He thins his beard out with scissors, then shaves it. The man opens his backpack.
5 / EXT. EIFFEL TOWER – AFTERNOON
The man is dressed up with a blue night three-piece suit and has his backpack over his shoulder: he climbs the stairs up to the third floor of the Eiffel Tower. He puts his backpack down and pulls a teddy out of it.
Facing the Military Academy, he takes the family picture out of the chest pocket of the jacket, gazing at it while squeezing the cuddly toy with a sad but soothed look. Suddenly, he realizes that a woman and her little boy are sitting against the wall to his left.
The mother is smiling sadly at him and so does he, then, turning towards the little boy, smiles at him a little more joyfully. The child answers him with a joyful smile. Then the man hands the boy his teddy.
The child holds it, smiling more and more. The man sits down with them.
