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HOSPITAL CORRIDOR / Video ( voice-over )

Images of frosty glass, closed doors and long corridors. Camera moving around. Slowly. Passes young woman who stands with female doctor in white. Passes several times, different versions.

Doctor: "She has a history of phobias ... It started fifteen years ago with a fear of heights. She collapsed in her workstudio...
Today she claims she can´t go out. Stares at herself in the mirror. Starts to tremble and get violent spasms when we talk about it. An acute agoraphobia. A fear of meeting people ... of public spaces."

Young woman: "Can you do anything ?"

Doctor: "First she has to overcome the immidate fear. The crisis. Then we can start a treatment. With a specialized psychotherapist. It will take time ."

Young woman: "Can I do anything?"

Doctor: "Talk to her. Help her remember good times. Happy times."

Young woman: "I have to invent them ... It was so long ago. We lived in a foster home. Me and my sister. Since before our teens ..."

 

A fear of meeting people ... of public spaces.


PHOTOGRAPHER (PART TWO)
/ voices
( dialogue sound only )

Photographer: "I would love to have you both ... in front of my camera ."

Young woman: "You´re crazy ! Have you seen her ? It would mean a disaster. Totally !"

Photographer: "Easy ... t´was an idea ..."

Young woman: "What my mother needs is some respect! Some real human consideration. Someone who cares for her, her person... "

Photographer: "Does she have anyone ? Someone she can live with ?"

Young woman: "My fathers mother. My grandmother. I´ve only met her once..."