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The three women barely use the big house now. This room
is their home. If it were big enough, they’d probably
sleep here.
Augusta sits at the head of the table, by the door, and
Louise sits next to her, playing with a SMALL DOLL.
Mad tends to a POT on the fire.
LOUISE:
Heard you shoot.
LOUISE (CONT’D)
...what was it?
Augusta doesn’t want to answer.
AUGUSTA:
Somethin’ small n’ fast.
LOUISE:
Rabbit?
AUGUSTA:
Maybe.
Louise thinks about how good that would taste.
They all do.
(CONTINUED)
6.
AUGUSTA (CONT’D)
Don’t even know if it was really there.
She remembers it for a moment.
AUGUSTA (CONT'D)
But once that gun goes off everythin’
livin’ is gone.
LOUISE:
Why’s it hard when the only thing there’s
you and the rabbit?
Mad spoons TURNIPS and CARROTS into a LARGE BOWL.
MAD:
The woods is big and the rabbit’s small.
She walks over to the table and places it next to a plate
of GROUND HOMINY.
LOUISE:
Can I start?
MAD:
We all goin’ to.
LOUISE:
I was asking my sister.
AUGUSTA:
(gently)
No need to talk to Mad like that.
LOUISE:
But she’s --
AUGUSTA:
(firmer)
Thought you wanted to eat.
Louise is about to say something else, but she gives in
and looks down at her plate.
Mad SITS. And with that, the three women dig in.
They eat with their hands. They’ve given up praying.
Over this --
Mad HUMS a haunting tune that takes us to --
7.
The three women EMERGE from the door, the lamps from the
windows in hand.
Augusta, RIFLE in her other hand, leads the way as the
women take the walkway to the BACK DOOR of the Farmhouse.
Augusta opens the door and they head in.
INT. FARMHOUSE / BACK HALL - CONTINUOUS
Lit only by the OIL LAMPS, the women cautiously make
their way through the dark house.
The only room they use now is the bedroom; the rest of
the house has become a stranger to them. It’s nearly
empty now, anyway. They’ve sold or traded most everything
that was in it.
As they walk, Mad continues to HUM. It warms their
journey towards sleep.
INT. FARMHOUSE / STAIRCASE - CONTINUOUS
They climb the stairs.
Augusta joins Mad, she knows the SONG well. It gets them
where they need to go.
INT. FARMHOUSE / HALLWAY - NIGHT
From the far end of the hall, the women move towards us.
Still they HUM.
INT. FARMHOUSE / BEDROOM - CONTINUOUS
They’ve reached their destination.
They all share this one room.
There is a LARGER BED in the middle of the room, and then
a SMALLER BED has been pulled in that lies perpendicular
on the wall at the foot of the other.
Mad, the last to enter, closes the door. They’ve
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