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    To Kill The Void
    To Kill The Void
    To Kill The Void
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    To Kill The Void

    By Dmitry Berger

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    A woman brings her husband to a remote cottage in the middle of nowhere to give him what he always wanted – peace and quiet of his personal fortress of solitude in the northern snowy wilderness. He well deserves to get away from it all, to step out of the rat race every middle-aged, professional family man has to endure. She leaves him alone with supply of food and booze, and his only lifeline to the world – a cell phone.
    The man enjoys this almost savage life far away from annoying distractions of civilization. But after a while, the surrounding white emptiness begins to affect him. Something or someone seems to stalk him. Where does it come from? No one is around. Then it must come from inside.
    But is it all real or just a bad dream. Instead of peace of mind, his blissful solitude away from it all conjures up the inner demon of self-loathing and self-fear.
    The outside world with all its little familiar distractions is only a phone call away; the choice it to run to it or maybe from it. Because no matter what he does he is never alone.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDmitry Berger
    Release dateMar 28, 2012
    ISBN9780988020917
    To Kill The Void
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    Dmitry Berger

    Dmitry Berger is not really a writer. Come to think of it, he is not much of anything, despite a long array of various jobs and experience he has had. After twenty-seven years in the USSR, he traded all the excitement of perestroika for the calm suburbs of Ottawa, Canada, where he continues to expand his raging interest in every bit of what is life: from quantum physics to kinky sex, from soccer tactic to American political circus, from the inner workings of our brains to slow roasting back ribs, in order to cram it all into his writings and music.

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      To Kill The Void - Dmitry Berger

      To Kill The Void

      Screenplay by Dmitry Berger

      Copyright 2012 by Dmitry Berger

      Library of Congress Registration Number PAu003609479

      Smashwords Edition

      ISBN 978-0-9880209-1-7

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you're reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Due to the constrains presented by various ebook formats, this script may not conform to the industry standards. But who cares? You read it for the dialogs only, anyway.

      Contents

      As the screenplays usually do not have explicit chapters or acts, the author would like to accommodate the reader of this ebook by introducing parts to it, for the sake of better navigation.

      Part 1…………… Character Introduction

      Part 2…………… Build up

      Part 3…………… Conflict

      Part 4…………… Finale

      Part 1 – Back to Contents

      EXT. OUTSIDE THE COTTAGE –- DAY

      FADE IN. A lonely tiny cottage, rather a hut, stands in the middle of scenic winter landscape.

      A car appears, going to the cottage, struggling through the deep virgin snow.

      There is no sign of any road, no power lines, no other cottages around.

      CUT TO:

      INT. COTTAGE –- DAY

      MAN and WOMAN carrying bags with supplies enter the cottage.

      Woman puts the bags down and exits.

      Man puts the bags down and looks around.

      Woman enters again with a box, puts it down and starts unpacking.

      Man searches for something on the walls.

      MAN

      Where’s the light switch?

      WOMAN

      Haven’t you noticed how far this place is from civilization? There’s no electricity here. But it’s got the nice rustic fireplace and candles.

      Man steps to the fireplace.

      He takes a flashlight from the mantle.

      MAN

      And don’t forget this antique flashlight and the most exquisite… What is that?

      He scowls and puts it back.

      He touches the glass of an old kerosene lamp.

      MAN

      Is that… a kerosene lamp? What luxury! For that you drove me for three and a half hours? This is your surprise?

      WOMAN

      Yeah, this is it. Your retreat, your sanctuary, your peace of mind for the next week.

      MAN

      What’s wrong with the Caribbean? Works like a charm every year.

      WOMAN

      It does. But this time I thought you needed something completely different.

      MAN

      To spend our family vacation in some rundown hut in the middle of nowhere?

      WOMAN

      Not our family vacation. Just you, alone.

      MAN

      Me? Alone?

      WOMAN

      Yes, just you, alone, in the middle of nowhere, undisturbed, unprovoked, bonding with nature, gathering your thoughts, generally left alone for awhile.

      MAN

      Wow! That’s some surprise!

      WOMAN

      Hardly.

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