The Unspoken Truth (The First Two Minutes)

It is 2010. Our film follows the story of a rather unsettled family, in which the main protagonist of the play, Scarlett Cole is schizophrenic, a disease unknown to her and her daughter, Scarlett. Our story follows their lives as it unfolds in the dire way it does, revealing just how mad Florence is, and the consequences it has for their family.

Florence Cole is a mother of one: Scarlett Cole. Florence is a strict but loving mother who (to herself) does what is right for her daughter, as she expects no less. However, in reality, her daughter Scarlett suffers as a result of her mother’s conflicting personality, and suspects that she indeed needs psychiatric help.

Scarlett gets pregnant at the age of 16, and is too scared to tell her mother, because she knows how she would take it- not very well. Florence, as a concerned mother (now in her good personality) is upset as any mother would be, but agrees to support her daughter. However, this triggers a very calamitous development in her negative personality, as she becomes even more violent.

We fast forward eight months later, where we find Scarlett very heavily pregnant, working her way through her pregnancy to help support her baby. Two weeks later, she gives birth to a baby boy, who she calls Raymond. She still has to support her baby she does not stop working.

On the other hand, Florence’s disease is developing and is becoming more and more violent and one evening, while Scarlett is at work, Florence goes into Raymond’s room while he is sleeping, and takes him and drops him at the orphanage.

The story unfolds as Scarlett comes home and her mother is crying at the door and tells her that she is so sorry but Raymond is dead. She goes on to explain that it was a cot death and Scarlett runs up the stairs to try and see for herself because she knows her mother’s tendencies but alas, there is no baby in the room.

Ever since that night, Scarlett has had dreams about her child -nightmares where she hears him crying and calling for her, in which she proceeds to wake up from, but she can still hear his baby monitor and faint crying and her worst fears are coming to life- that she is becoming just as mad as her mother.