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He waits until she is safely in the other room, and then,
sadly, takes the pan out of the freezer and puts it in a
cupboard.
7 INT ANDERSSON’S LIVINGROOM -JANUARY 2003 -NIGHT 7
FIONA lies with her head on GRANT’S lap. There’s a fire in
the fireplace, the house orderly and cosy. It’s snowing
outside, big fairy tale snow flakes. He reads to her from a
book of poetry.
GRANT:
(reading)
You climbed the bank and said
This is how you touch other women
The grass cutter’s wife, the lime
burner’s daughter
And you searched your arms
For the missing perfume
And knew
Fiona strokes his face. Interrupts him.
FIONA:
Don’t worry darling.I expect I’m
just losing my mind.
GRANT:
Ssshhhh.
5.
GRANT:
What good is it to be the lime
burner’s daughterLeft with no trace
As if not spoken to in the act of
love
As if wounded without the pleasure
of a scar
You touched yourBelly to my handsIn the dry air and saidI am the cinnamon
Peeler’s wife. Smell me.
She falls asleep as he reads. He watches her sleep for a few
moments.
8 INT ANDERSSON’S BEDROOM -JANUARY 2003-NIGHT 8
GRANT strokes FIONA’S hair. She smiles up at him, warm. They
kiss, and slowly and calmly make love.
Title Card:
The Diagnoses
9 INT ANDERSSON’S BATHROOM -JANUARY 2003-NIGHT 9
GRANT is peeing. He finishes and washes his hands, catching a
glimpse of himself in the mirror. On the mirror is a sticky
note. It says “7am Yoga. 7:30 - 7:45 teeth, face, hair. 7:45
8:
15 walk. 8:15 Grant and Breakfast.” He puts his fingers toit, touched by it’s precision.
10 INT ANDERSSON’S BEDROOM -JANUARY 2003-NIGHT 10
GRANT gets into bed behind FIONA. He spoons her, holding her
close, kissing her neck.
GRANT:
That was lovely.
FIONA:
What was lovely?
He thinks for a moment.
GRANT:
Nothing.
6.
He looks at the back of her head, guilty and wondering. He
leans over and kisses her forehead. She smiles. He turns away
and closes his eyes.
11 EXT MARIAN’S HOUSE -FEBRUARY 2005- MORNING 11
Grant sits in his car, in the same shot as the opening. He
gets out of the car and knocks on the door of the house in
the rundown neighbourhood. Marian, an attractive woman in her
60’s opens the door. She holds some flowers in her hand, as
though she was just about to put them in a vase. She speaks
with a fairly heavy American accent.
MARIAN:
Yes?
GRANT:
I don’t quite know how to introduce
myself. I used to see your husband
at Meadowlake. I’m a regular
visitor there myself. Those are
some lovely flowers.
We will keep returning to this scene throughout the film,
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