On the edge of the future Page #3

LOLA (TALKING ON THE PHONE)

Yes? Hello, how did you sleep?

VOICE (ON THE PHONE) Great. How is you?

LOLA Also good.

VOICE (ON THE PHONE)

Have you heard the news?

LOLA (STARTS RUNNING) What about?

VOICE (ON THE PHONE WITH A JOYFUL SQUEAL)

Shirin is getting married.

LOLA (ROLLING HER EYES) Come on.

VOICE (ON THE PHONE)

Yes. Think about it, last night her boyfriend proposed to her and she screams at the top of her voice in chat rooms. Did you even go to the telegram?

LOLA (RUNNING)

No. I haven't had time yet.

VOICE (ON THE PHONE)

Come in and see for yourself. Why are you running in the morning?

LOLA (OUT OF BREATH)

Yes, today I wanted to.

VOICE (ON THE PHONE)

Just don't forget to have breakfast.

LOLA ok. I will not.

VOICE (ON THE PHONE)

Yes, yes, I know your I WON'T. Soon, at this rate, you'll get an ulcer, not a man and a family.

LOLA (ROLLS HER EYES) Lena.

VOICE (ON THE PHONE)

What? I'm right. You're not going to spend your whole life pining for Edward Cullen or Captain America or any other unreal characters.

LOLA (STOPPING) But they have true love.

VOICE (ON THE PHONE)

They are not real Lola themselves. How can their love be real?

LOLA:

Okay, Len, let's do it another time.

VOICE (ON THE PHONE)

As you know. All I'm going. See you at work.

LOLA good. See you.

Lola turns off and looks straight ahead. Her eyes open wider. She's scared.

Farrukh is running to our side in sports clothes and wearing wireless headphones.

Lola looks standing up and with her eyes wide open. Farrukh runs in slow motion and looks at us. Then he looks straight ahead and runs past Lola. She sighs with relief. Farrukh looks after him. He drops a round, black stone. Lola looks down and at the retreating Farrukh.

LOLA (CALLING HIM) Hey. You dropped something.

Farrukh doesn't turn around. We see headphones in his ears. Lola looks at Farrukh and quickly takes the glowing stone in her hands and runs towards Farrukh. The stone will begin to glow strongly. Lola stops and looks at them with her eyes wide open, she understands that she is in trouble. Slowly looks at Farrukh. He turns around with a smile.

LOLA (BEHIND THE SCENES)

This dream. This time it warned me.

Disappears. Lola's headphones are lying on the ground. BLACKOUT.

2

DARKNESS:

EXT. DESERT – DAY

Lola's eyes open. She stands and looks straight with her eyes wide open from shock with her lips slightly parted. We make a semicircle from Lola's face and look through her eyes into the endless deserts. The desert is big. There is no end in sight. Lola turns around and we see the same picture: the desert, there is no end in sight. Sandstorms are flying. The dust rises and falls. Lola starts coughing, sneezing and breathing more often, suffocating. She covers her nose with her hand. Her eyes watered. Pinches her hand. It's not a dream.

Screaming for help. In response, we will hear the sound of a storm.

She holds her head with both hands. We quickly make circles next to Lola. She stands in the center and looking straight slowly sits down. Hands go down. We're still making circles. She understands that she can't get out of here. She sits and stares straight ahead. She clenches her fists and goes straight up. She understands that there is no need to give up.

EXT. DESERT – IN ANOTHER PLACE – DAY

A FEW SOLDIERS are walking fast. They are wearing masks that completely cover their mouth, nose and ears. On the eyes of protective glasses. They hold weapons ready in their hands. A pack of cannibals runs up to them. They make the sounds of hungry animals. The soldiers will start shooting. Cannibals are falling. One OLD CANNIBAL aged 65-70 years old, with a dirty body, sparse dirty hair, a blackish dirty face and shaggy clothes, runs away from the place of the shot. One leg hangs as if broken.

EXT. THE DESERT – THE PLACE OF LOLA'S APPEARANCE FROM THE PAST – SUNSET

Soldiers arrive at the site of Lola's fall. They see a black stone remote control. One soldier picks it up and looks at the sky. Sees the sunset.

THE SOLDIER (TO THE OTHERS)

It's too late. We're going back.

EXT. DESERT – SUNSET

Lola is barely walking. Her sleeveless T-shirt was sweating profusely. The sports shirt is worn on the belt. We hear the sound of rumbling stomach. Lola touches her stomach with her hand and licks her dry, chapped lips.

Sees a bottle lying on the ground. She will quickly reach it and bring it to her lips as she falls. Empty. She lowers her hand with the bottle. Throws the bottle to the side with force and holding her head cries and screams. She's almost broken. After a few seconds, taking her strength in a fist rises.

LOLA (TO HERSELF LOOKING FORWARD)

Not now. You can handle it.

EXT. DESERT BIG ROCKS

Lola approaches the stones. She rides slowly and we see big stones with her eyes. Having reached one, hiding looks into the field where the old ogre walks. She starts watching him. He can barely walk and picking up a bone from the ground, he will start gnawing it with sharp teeth, which are completely covered in plaque.

Lola strongly inhales through her nose and covers her mouth with her hand. Eyes wide open. Looks past us to the side.

The ogre quickly looks in the opposite direction. The bone will fall to the ground. Saliva drips from the ogre's mouth and he quickly walks in that direction with a hanging leg. Lola is looking with her eyes for what is nearby. There are only big rocks and sand on the ground. She feels her phone in the pocket of her pants with her hands. It shows a little corner of the phone so that it is clear to us what it is. She holds it tightly in her hand in her pocket. She stands and looks at the ogre. She's afraid. The ogre was almost getting to the stone. He's being shot at. He falls dead. Lola looks at his body and looks up. Three people eat. We see them blurry and Lola faints.

BUNYOD, aged 25-26, a handsome brown-haired man with a beard and brown eyes, dressed in a gray T-shirt and wide trousers, wearing a large backpack, lowers the barrel and walks frowning in our direction.

Next to him is MADINA, 20 years old, in a hijab. She's frowning too. Dressed entirely in grayish tones and AZIZ 27 years old, with curly brown hair. He smiles, showing his teeth. He is glad that they got rid of the ogre without damage.

They all follow Bunyod. They approach Lola lying on the ground and look at her. She lies with her eyes closed on her side. Bunyod wipes his temples.

AZIZ (LOOKING AT LOLA) Is that her?

BUNYOD (SIGHING) It looks like it.

He looks at Madina. She stands and looks at Lola. Bunyod sighs.

BUNYOD (WIPING HIS FACE WITH HIS HAND)

We have to get out of here before the others come.

He points with his eyes in the direction of the ogre.

BUNYOD (LOOKING AT MADINA) Can you wake her up?

Madina nods. She takes the backpack off her shoulders and puts it on the floor. Opens it. She takes out alcohol in worn labels and brings it to Lola's nose.

Lola winces and opens her eyes. She looks at Madina, then at Aziz. Bunyod looks at her. She looks at him for more than 5 seconds. Studies, looks down and up from the bottom. She's looking at us. They look at each other. Bunyod sighs and closes his eyes. Having opened them, he looks in the other direction. Lola frowns, shakes her lips and looks at Madina, then at Bunyod. She rolls her eyes.

LOLA (LOOKING AWAY WITH A HOARSE VOICE) Where am I?

MADINA (SIMULTANEOUSLY WITH BUNED) In the village.

BUNYOD (SIMULTANEOUSLY WITH MADINA) In 2103.

Lola, with her eyes wide open, abruptly raises her head and looks at them. She turns her eyes to the sides. Breathing more often. She doesn't believe what she's heard. Bunyod looks at her. Looks away. He feels sorry for her.

BUNYOD We have to go.

LOLA (LOOKING AT BUNED IN A RUDE TONE) Where to?

Bunyod's eyebrows shoot up. He looks at her with his eyes wide open. He hadn't expected such a tone.

BUNYOD (POINTING WITH THE OGRE'S HEAD)

It's getting late. We need to find shelter. Soon his friends will go hunting.

Lola frowns at him for 3 seconds, then rises, shakes off the dust. And stands looking at him and crossing her arms in her chest. Bunyod goes first, then Madina and Aziz. Lola looks at them and lowering her hands to the correct position follows them. Lola walks next to Aziz and looks at everyone. She's watching them. We look at Aziz from top to bottom. He turns and smiles. Lola also smiles in response. Lola looks at Madina. We look at Madina, then at Bunyod. Both walk with furrowed brows and look straight at the road. Everyone has backpacks in their shoulders and weapons hanging on their shoulders. Lola will come closer to Aziz. He holds out his hand. Smiling.

LOLA (LOOKING AT AZIZ, THEN AT THE ROAD) Hi. My name is Lola.

AZIZ (SMILING) I know, Aziz.

Aziz slaps her hard on the shoulder, which almost makes Lola fall. Aziz will hold her.

AZIZ (HOLDING HER ELBOW)

Sorry, this is how we get to meet each other.

He raises both hands high and shows his palms.

LOLA (LOOKING AT THE ROAD AND SMILING CROOKEDLY)

Nothing. I do not know about your time. Will you tell me a little? Why do cannibals roam in the future?

AZIZ (LOOKING AT HER WITH HIS EYEBROWS RAISED HIGH) Cannibals?

LOLA (HESITATING SLIGHTLY)

Well, such as that old man we call, called so. For example, Jeffrey Dahmer is one of them.

AZIZ (FROWNING AND LOOKING AT HER) Jeffrey who?

LOLA (GESTURING WITH HER HANDS)

Well, he also, like, liked to eat people's hearts.

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