Treatment draft 2

Sarah's husband passes away after months of being terminally ill and her relationship between her and her son slowly deteriorates. Sarah begins to drink heavily and arguments between her and her son get more and more heated as he cannot accept the way his mother is dealing with the Dads death. Sarah continues to be unaware of her son's emotions until she comes across a diary that he is writing to his father begging for answers regarding how to deal with his mother. it is only at the end that she realises her ways must change as her son is loosing his mother.

Our story starts off with Sarah and her son looking down at the fathers grave. Whilst the son is extremely upset the mother remains emotionless and walks away, it is here that we see the disconnection between her and her son and it is here that the audience start to question why Sarah is acting this way. At home we see how there relationship slowly deteriorates where in one scene we see how Sarah begins to throw out the late Father's belongings and is unaware that when her back is turned her son is taking them as he doesn't want to erase his fathers memories out of his life and keeps his belongings as a sense of memorabillia. The mum turns to drink and spirals into depression and consequently both her and her son have a heated conversation of what she is turning into.

While the son is out of the house the mum decides to start cleaning to clear her mind of everything going on in her life. She starts off with washing up dishes then the living room, making sure everything is clean and tidy she stumbles across a pair of her son's shoes which she goes and returns in his room. It is in his room that she finds her late and husbands belongings and becomes shocked and reminded of his life by pictures, clothing etc... underneath her sons pillow she also find a diary with entries titled 'Dear Dad'. She opens up the book to the first page where she reads her son's words to his dad, begging for answers and way to get his mum back as he explains he has lost her and feels that he is grieving alone. He also mentions that it's his birthday tommorow and that hes not expecting any fuss from his mum because she doesn't care.

At this point we expect to see Sarah actually realising the effect of her actions, but we don't instead we see her walking downstairs with rope in her hand and at this point we instantly think suicide whilst on the edge of our seats. We then see her climb onto a chair and reaching up to tie the rope onto something and her son enters the room with a shocked facial expression. The audience then realises it was not Sarah attempting suicide but putting up decoration for his birthday party due to her realisation that her son was loosing his mother and they weren't coming togther and grieving together.