Shooting Script

• Shots of the couple before wedding and after - although unable to tell - different locations, costumes etc.. showing the couple before the war - looking in love and happy. Also shows the couple meeting husbands sister for the first time - body language will indicate the relationships between the characters.

• Wedding Scene - Outdoors, under arch, several seconds long, dialogue - "I Do" for each character. Close up on both their faces - shot-reverse-shot on dialogue.

• Argument scene - in living room - husband tells wife he is leaving to go to war - they argue - improvised dialogue for the argument itself - husband leaves (slow motion) takes a last look at wife, opens the door and leaves.

• Sister-in-law comes to live with wife - shots of the pair worrying over a period of time, sister-in-law tries to be comforting, but wife is unable to cope.

• Pregnancy - wife finds out she is pregnant - several shots of different stages of pregnancy, and a shot of the pair coming home - a baby in the mothers arms.

• Finding out - and officer comes to the door (close up of hand knocking, different angles etc..) wife is told her husband was shot in action - she breaks down emotionally, short and dramatic scene.

• Grief - a few quick shots of the wife in shock, crying, depressed, unable to take care of herself or her child - shows sister-in-law taking care of the baby.

• Funeral - shot in graveyard, a few mourners at the scene, shows wife looking unhealthy and extremely depressed, shows sister-in-law with the baby. Close ups of mourners crying.

• Leaving - Widow leaves - takes a last look at her child, picks up her suitcase and leaves forever.

• Wish - Long shot of widow walking down the road, pans up to the sky and transcends into her wish - a shot of her, husband and child, altogether happy and smiling - location - a previous place from the first shots where the couple used to go and were happy together, again pans up to the sky and fades to black.