EXT.

BUS STATION- DAY

JULIET (18) gets off of a bus, carrying a big backpack and

looking nervous.

EXT. COUNTRY ROAD- DAY

Juliet walks down the country road until she comes to the PHONE
STORE-

INT. PHONE STORE- DAY

Juliet enters phones store and walks up to the counter.

SALESMAN comes to the counter.

JULIET
What’s your cheapest phone?

SALESMAN
Hmmm, let’s see...(he pulls out a
few cheap flip phones and looks at
them) We’ve got these, all
starting at 30 for the phone and
15 a month...

Juliet sighs and opens her backpack. She takes out a wad of
crumpled cash after fishing around for a bit and puts it on the
counter. The salesman stares.

SALESMAN
You sure you don’t wanna just
trade in your old phone? You know,
for a smarter one? I could give
you a 25% discount.

JULIET
No that’s ok I- I’ve never had
phone. I just need a simple one.

Salesman shrugs and begins counting the cash she put on the
counter. Cash register sound.

EXT. CITY BUS- DAY

Juliet is on the bus again, holding her new flip phone and a
folded piece of paper with her new phone number written on it.

She looks around the bus. We see lots of ordinary people just
doing ordinary things.

Suddenly she sees a middle aged woman with short blond hair

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Transition with woman on the bus turning around angrily and

changing to MOM angrily yelling at Juliet at her house.

INT. JULIET’S KITCHEN

The kitchen is a mess, and empty alcohol bottles clutter the

counters. MOM is a mess as well, and yelling at Juliet, still
18.

MOM
You don’t have the right to- to
go prying around for answers, you
ungrateful little brat. I am your
mother, I raised you, and you
should treat me like I deserve!
You were not adopted, and I don’t
care what you think you saw or
heard or found. The fact that you-
that you don’t trust your own
mother to- to tell you the truth,
that you think that I would lie to
you... is so ungrateful. You won’t
be leaving the house again, you
are going to start working 40
hours a week at your job so that
we can pay the bills, and you will
not question anything I tell you.
Ever. Understood?

Juliet is trembling in the corner, a cut on her cheek. Tears

pouring down her face, she can’t speak but she is nodding
shakily, very scared.

Closeup on her face, and we transition to present Juliet stuck

in the flashback but still on the bus.

INT. CITY BUS- DAY

Look back at the blond woman, who did not move and doesn’t look
anything like MOM except for the hair. Juliet blinks and shakes
the memory off. She opens her bag and puts the phone and piece
of paper inside, then gets comfortable to doze off.

Time lapses and Juliet wakes up after feeling the bus jostle to
a stop. She sits up sleepily and looks out the window, then
sees its her stop. She gets off the bus.

EXT. SUBURBAN STREET- DAY

Juliet walks down the street until she reaches a shoe shop.

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She looks around, makes sure she’s not being watched, and goes
inside.

INT. SHOE SHOP- NIGHT

We follow MOLLY (35), around the shop as she locks up, and
cleans.

She enters the BACK ROOM, sees a shoe box on a side table and
not on the shelves. She picks it up.

COWORKER enters back room with keys jangling just as Molly

heads to put the box on a shelf.

COWORKER
Oh is that the box that was on
the desk?

MOLLY
(Looks at box)
Oh, yeah. I was just going to put
it away.

COWORKER
Yeah, that reminds me...actually
yesterday this girl came in asking
for you. Before she left she
wanted me to ask you specifically
to find that pair of shoes in
another size, for some reason.
Seemed kind of neurotic.

MOLLY
Ok...

COWORKER
Well, anyways. I’m clocking out
for the night. Here are the keys.

Coworker hands Molly keys, then heads out the back door.

COWORKER (O.S.)
Night Molly!

MOLLY
Night!

Molly hangs up the keys on a wall hook, sighs, looking

exhausted, then opens the shoebox. A wave of confusion, still
on her face.

We see her pull out a baby blanket with one hand, box still in
the other. Suddenly, her face changes to shock.

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We see an embroidered “Juliet” on the blanket, and Molly drops

the shoebox in shock. Enter into flashback.

INT. HOSPITAL - DAY

YOUNG MOLLY (17) has just given birth, exhausted, but smiling
at the newborn in her arms. Baby is wrapped in the same
blanket, embroidered “Juliet”

INT. SHOE SHOP - NIGHT

Flashback to PRESENT MOLLY, now overcome with emotion and

leaning against the desk for support. She is still staring at
the blanket, and tears begin to pour down her face. Flashback
again...

INT. ADOPTION CENTER - DAY

To YOUNG MOLLY (17) with tears pouring down her face. The baby
is crying in a stranger’s arms. We see the baby is wrapped in
the embroidered blanket again. Molly’s mother holds her arm,
gently pulling her toward the door.

YOUNG MOLLY
(Almost hysterically)
I love you, baby! I love you-I’ll
come back, I promise! I promise
I’ll come back!

YOUNG MOLLY completely breaks down into her mother’s arms, and
they exit the adoption center.

Flashback to present.

INT. SHOE SHOP- NIGHT

Molly is taking deep, shattering breaths to calm down. She is

fiddling with the blanket nervously, and we hear and see
crinkling, but she is too occupied in thought to notice.

MOLLY
(Whispers)
Juliet...

After regaining her composure, she stands up and abruptly

leaves, turning the lights off as she goes, and plunging us in
total darkness.

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INT. MOLLY’S BEDROOM- NIGHT

Camera stays in dark room while we hear a front door slam,

Molly running upstairs. Door opens and room goes from dark to
light after Molly turns on the lights.

She pauses, hands in her hair, distressed, then throws the

blanket on the desk and collapses on her bed. Molly doesn’t see
but a small paper note falls out of the blanket to the desk
chair. It’s the same note that Juliet’s phone number was
written on.

EXT. CITY ALLEY- NIGHT

Juliet is sitting in a city alleyway, shivering slightly,

twirling her phone in her hands. She takes out a wallet and
opens it, then puts it back when she sees there’s only a few
coins.

Looking lost, she ruffles through the rest of her backpack and
takes out some papers, feeling and reading them. They’re her
real adoption papers, with Molly’s name on them.

Tears come to Juliet’s eyes as she relives the same memory. We

hear her adopted mother shouting “You were not adopted, and I
don’t care what you think you saw or heard or found” and
closeup on Juliet’s face.

Quickly she puts the papers away after looking around nervously
again. Accepting her current situation, she sets up a sleeping
spot in the alley with her spare jacket and her backpack.
Laying down, she holds the phone close and dozes off.

INT. MOLLY’S BEDROOM- NIGHT

After a few moments of lying on the bed, nervously thinking and

fidgeting, Molly sits up. She stares at the blanket, then sees
the fallen note.

Quickly she rushes over to look at it, and as she’s reading she
gasps. On one side of the note is Juliet’s phone number, and
the side she’s reading says, “Ran away. Being followed.
Juliet.” Molly turns over the note and sees the phone number.

Molly immediately reaches for her purse she discarded by the

bedroom door. After digging around, she finds her phone.

EXT. CITY ALLEY- CONTINUOUS

Juliet is asleep, lying on the ground in the alleyway.

Suddenly, the phone lying beside her rings.

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Juliet wakes up and frantically fumbles the phone and answers

it. We hear Molly on the other end, sobbing.

MOLLY
Juliet? Oh my-Juliet?

Juliet, overwhelmed, begins sobbing.

INT. MOLLY’S BEDROOM- CONTINUOUS

Molly is on the phone. She hears Juliet.

JULIET
M-Molly? (Beat) Mom?

Molly breaks down sobbing and slowly collapses to the floor,

nodding.

MOLLY
Yes, yes it is, oh my baby, my
baby!

EXT. CITY ALLEY- CONTINUOUS

Juliet is sitting up, sobbing into the phone. After a moment,

Molly speaks.

MOLLY
Juliet, where are you baby? Are
you safe? I’m coming for you!

Juliet begins gathering her things, holding the phone up to her

ear the whole time. She runs out the alley looking around.

JULIET
I’m in an alley- I- travelled
east by bus after leaving the shoe
store.

Juliet looks at the street sign.

INT. MOLLY’S BEDROOM- CONTINUOUS

Molly stands up and begins gathering her things.

JULIET
I’m on 5th Park Avenue, about two
hours from your store.

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EXT. CITY ALLEY- CONTINUOUS

Juliet begins walking down the street, trying to figure out her
surroundings.

MOLLY
I’ll be right there, baby. Right
there.

INT. MOLLY’S CAR- NIGHT

Molly enters the car and begins driving. She places the baby
blanket in the passenger seat.

EXT. SUBURBAN ROAD- NIGHT

Molly’s car drives down the road, time passes, the sky gets
darker.

EXT. CITY ROAD- NIGHT

Juliet walks along the city road, illuminated with

streetlights, looking very small and very lost.

Cut to Molly looking very tired while driving, and Juliet

leaning against a streetlamp, nearly falling asleep.

Suddenly just as Juliet dozes off, headlights fall on her face.

Molly is in the car, crying, as the car rolls to a stop.

MOLLY
(Whispers)
Juliet...

Juliet, headlights shining on her face, moves slowly towards

the car.

JULIET
(Whispers)
Mom...

THE END

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