EXT. THE ROOFTOP - NOON

ADAM is scaling up the scaffolding which will lead him to a rooftop.

He looks down beneath himself with a brief moment of trepidation, and pulls himself onto a platform behind a railing.

He turns upwards and looks at the short distance that remains.

Confidently swallowing his fear, he climbs back onto the piping and clambers toward the top.

As he rises over the horizon of the building's edge, EVE is there.

Having heard his climbing, she is facing him and comes toward the edge to greet him.

She grasps his arm and helps to pull him the final step onto the rooftop.

EVE and ADAM hug on the rooftop.

Their embrace ends and she smiles broadly at him.

ADAM looks down from whence he came for a glance then back to EVE.

He steps closer to her and embraces her for a single, quick but passionate kiss.

ADAM turns out and admires the view.

INT. JONNY'S ROOM - DAY

JONNY is looking straight down the camera.

EXT. THE ROOFTOP - CONTINUOUS

ADAM smiles, still looking out over the view.

EVE looks onward to ADAM as he looks out over the scenery.

The mood is calm, nature seems serene.

He turns to her and steps closer to her.

She steps toward him and takes his hand.

ADAM appears sombre.

ADAM turns away from her, slipping out of the grasp of her hand.

INT. LECTURE THEATRE - DAY

The TUTOR is speaking toward camera, positioned where ADAM would have been sat.

EXT. THE ROOFTOP - CONTINUOUS

EXT. BACK STREET - NOON (ONE WEEK AGO)

ADAM is crouched next to a homeless man, FIGMENT.

FIGMENT reaches forward and gives ADAM's cranium two knocks.

EXT. THE ROOFTOP - CONTINUOUS

ADAM sits at the edge of the building, looking out.

EVE walks across and sits next to him, dangling her legs over the side.

EVE takes ADAM's hand again.

INT. LECTURE THEATRE - DAY

The TUTOR is stood at the front of the class. Our perspective is from ADAM's seat again.

EXT. THE ROOFTOP - CONTINUOUS

ADAM takes a pouch of tobacco and some papers from his pocket, letting go of EVE's hand once more.

He begins to roll a cigarette.

ADAM looks to EVE.

ADAM licks the skin of his cigarette and rolls it sealed.

He stands up and removes a lighter from his pocket.

He sparks up his cigarette and looks out across the world.

EVE stands up and faces ADAM.

EXT. THE PARK - DAY

EVE is lay on the grass, looking straight up and into camera.

EXT. THE ROOFTOP - CONTINUOUS

INT. EVE'S BEDROOM - NOON (ONE WEEK AGO)

An extreme close up of a paintbrush being dipped into a jar of dirty water.

EXT. THE ROOFTOP - CONTINUOUS

EVE smiles at ADAM.

ADAM smiles back at her.

He casts a glance directly down camera.

We see now from ADAM's perspective, EVE looking directly at us.

EVE turns away from camera and takes a few steps.

A haze of whitenoise starts to fill the screen like old TV static; the hiss starts to come through in audio.

The static finally overpowers all other video and audio.

Static fills the screen and white noise dominates the audio.

INT. EVE'S BEDROOM - NOON (ONE WEEK AGO)

Through the static, a vague image emerges.

First of a paintbrush stirring the dirty waters in a jar.

The view then follows the paintbrush as it is gracefully carried out of the water, given a slight shake over it and then moved to collect a blue coloured watercolour paint from a pallette.

EXT. THE ROOFTOP - CONTINUOUS

Quickly the static and the image fade away to reveal ADAM on the rooftop and looking into camera.

ADAM and EVE are facing each other on the rooftop.

The scene explodes into coloured, spiralling and waving strings.

INT. LECTURE THEATRE - DAY

The scene quickly assembles.

The TUTOR is our focus, particularly his mouth.

The scene explodes into strings once more.

EXT. TOWN CENTRE - NOON (ONE WEEK AGO)

The scene quickly assembles.

The PREACHER's lips are our focus.

The scene explodes into strings again, their motions growing into ever more violent wobbles and waves.

EXT. MAIN STREET - NOON (ONE WEEK AGO)

The scene quickly assembles.

ADAM is looking onward to a pair of young pedestrians passing by.

With the words “you know”, having passed ADAM already, the YOUNG PEDESTRIAN's eyes flick back to him for a moment.

The scene explodes into strings again, more violently.

EXT. THE ROOFTOP - CONTINUOUS

ADAM and EVE are stood looking from one another once the strings have quickly and violently merged to form the scene.

ADAM collapses to his knees, clutching at his head.

EVE kneels down in front of ADAM.

She takes him by the shoulders, and places her head to his.

ADAM is emotional, he appears broken.

He stands up slowly.

EVE follows.

ADAM turns away from EVE.

She puts a hand on his shoulder.

INT. EVE'S BEDROOM - NOON (ONE WEEK AGO)

The paintbrush with blue paint on it delicately and precisely fills in the details of a blue eye.

EXT. THE ROOFTOP - CONTINUOUS

ADAM is turned away from EVE.

Her hand rests on his shoulder.

He turns back to her.

He looks out across the world.

As a sudden burst of pain runs through his head, he clutches it with agony.

Then he turns to look back at EVE.

INT. EVE'S BEDROOM - NOON (ONE WEEK AGO)

The paintbrush with blue paint on it returns to the jar of water.

As it is dipped into the jar, the blue runs off it and bleeds into the other colours of paint in the dirty water.

EXT. THE ROOFTOP - CONTINUOUS

ADAM is stood with EVE.

EVE looks around at the scenery.

ADAM looks out at the skyline with EVE.

He bows his head.

EVE looks back to ADAM.

ADAM looks back to EVE and smiles at her.

ADAM takes EVE's hand.

He looks at it intently, gently caressing it between his fingers.

He looks into EVE's eyes.

EVE's expression is mildly sombre, but attentive to ADAM's words.

He lets go of EVE's hand to clutch at his head as he grimaces with agony.

He looks back at EVE.

Then he casts his eyes upwards to the sky.

He smiles at the sky as though it is a joke.

EVE takes ADAM's hand.

ADAM looks to her.

She draws him in and kisses him passionately.

He plays with her hand in his for a moment then steps back from her.

ADAM takes a step further back from EVE as she makes a gesture to move towards him.

She faults her own action and returns to stillness, standing and watching ADAM.

EVE wipes a hand across her face, not yet crying but in anticipation and in reaction to the stresses of the situation.

She looks at ADAM.

ADAM smiles at her.

His smile appears warm and he suddenly seems to be glowing with light beneath the midday sun.

She smiles back at him.

With these words, ADAM looks up to the sky.

The world around him turns a bright white, emanating out from his body like a halo.

And then, the halo consumes him and he is gone.

The world is left behind.

EVE looks on to where ADAM had just been.

She bows her head somberly, emotions welling up inside her.

Behind her, from far in the distance - beginning with the horizon and progressively growing closer - the world drops out of existence.

It falls into blackness in stages, like the lights of a long corridor gradually going out one by one.

Within only a few moments, the world behind EVE is black.

A moment later, she too fades into it.

The black lingers for a few long moments.

It lingers...

It lingers.

FADE IN:

INT. EVE'S BEDROOM - NOON (ONE WEEK AGO)

EVE is sat in a chair at her desk.

ERWIN, her cat, sits in her lap.

She pets him, and wets a paintbrush in a jar of water.

She collects paint from a tray of watercolours onto her brush.

In front of her, lays a page of sketched images separated into panels - a comic book.

The panels show a progression of a reality, assembling itself.

Halfway down the page, an image of ADAM is drawn looking into a bathroom mirror.

Before that, an image of water flowing through a sink - already painted with blues.

She takes her brush to ADAM's face and begins to add a reddish peachy paint to his cheeks, below where his eyes are already painted a vivid collection of blues.

Laid across the floor behind EVE, we see a collection of smaller sheets of paper with preliminary drawings committed to them in their comic book format.

One, we see, has a basic sketch of ADAM looking straight out next to a panel of two figures on a rooftop; their dialogue, “They see us?” and “They see us.”.

Other sketches show the rest of the story, depicting ADAM's short life and the agony of his week-long existence.

The pages are signed at the bottom with a name - “Eve”.