Film or TV scene · Drama · about 1 page, roughly 1 minute
Eleven Years
INT. ALLOTMENT SHED - DUSK
Rain on the window. MAYA (30s) sits alone in the allotment shed. On the table in front of her: a cassette tape labelled DO NOT TAPE OVER.
The door opens. RUTH (50s), Maya's older sister, stops dead at the sight of her.
RUTH
I didn't think you'd actually come.
MAYA
Neither did I.
RUTH
Is that the tape?
MAYA
(beat)
You know it is.
Ruth picks up the tape and holds it for a long moment.
RUTH
I was meant to give you this the day you left. I kept it instead.
Maya pockets the tape, walks to the door, and stops.
MAYA
(without turning)
Same time next week?
Off Ruth, who has waited eleven years to hear that.
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Logline
When Maya comes home with a cassette tape labelled DO NOT TAPE OVER, one conversation with her older sister reopens everything the family agreed never to discuss.