The Keeping Room Page #14

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EXT. FARMHOUSE - NIGHT

The land GRUMBLES in the distance, but here, for the

moment, all is still.

Mad and Louise stand a short distance from the house and

watch as THE FIRE STARTS AND CATCHES in one of the

downstairs windows.

Augusta emerges from the house and joins them.

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89.

The three of them watch the fire SPREAD, consuming the

only home they’ve ever known.

Louise looks at Augusta, their eyes lock for a moment.

Then Augusta looks at Mad, and their eyes lock too.

And then, they turn and walk. Together. Towards the ROAD.

As they walk, the FIRE continues to GROW behind them,

consuming the ground floor of the house.

Louise turns her head to look once more --

AUGUSTA:

Don’t look back.

Louise repositions her eyes on the road ahead.

They are feeling the exact same feeling in the exact same

way:
they are at once afraid and unafraid.

We go out WIDE as GROUPS of MEN appear from around the

back of the Farmhouse. They are UNION SOLDIERS. Some move

towards the KEEPING ROOM. Others towards the BARN.

But the majority of them fill in around the women,

SWALLOWING them into their fold. And the women walk on,

among them, unrecognized for what they are.

The FIRE GROWS behind them. Turning their world to ASH

and RUBBLE.

The sounds of WAR consume them. Consume us all.

And slowly, slowly, EVER SO SLOWLY, the camera RISES...

UP, UP, UP...

Into the air, above the women, above the road, above the

Farmhouse, the Keeping Room, the Barn and the land.

And settles into the sky.

Their FIRE becomes one of many FIRES.

And there is CRACKLING.

HOLLERING.

BARKING.

GUNSHOTS.

CANONS.

(CONTINUED)

90.

FIRE.

MEN ARE EVERYWHERE.

They creep up over the land like zombies.

THE END.

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