NARRATIVE
- She buys heroin from a dealer, goes back home, shoots up, falls asleep.
- She awakes early the next morning - the crack of dawn - and decides in a daze of post-high depression, to go for a walk.
- As she's wandering, she finds old photographs, trinkets etc on the floor. She decides to pick them up, there's something attracting her to them
- She starts to see a pattern emerging; the people in the photographs, the way they age, the way they connect with the other things she finds. It's clear to the audience that they're premonitions of her life but she is unsure.
- She turns a corner (or something similar ie. something comes into sight) and sees herself laid in bed. At this point she realises that she may have died in her sleep. Looking down, she sees she's no longer pregnant. She looks up again and now sees a fork in the road.
- One of the paths is short and dark; it symbolises her life if she continues to take the drugs. The other path has an air of mystery to it but seems lighter and rosier. Then she realises that the photos she's found are a premonition of her life should she get to live so long. She recognises the little girl in the photographs and realises that it's her baby growing up.
- As she staggers towards the latter, she sees a basket in a tree and instinctively knows her baby is in it. Attempting to get to her baby, she cuts her arm on a rose thorn, and she starts to bleed.
- Suddenly she awakes back in bed at home, where she fell asleep. She looks down at her arm, the needle has fallen out and there's blood everywhere. She looks down and is relieved to see that she's still pregnant.
- She realises that it was a dream but it has clearly phased her. She understands that if she keeps taking drugs she will lose her baby and go on a downward spiral. If she wants to live the life she saw in the photograph she must get help.
- The closing scene is her throwing her drug paraphernalia, alcohol and cigarettes in the bin.
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