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Logline: A young woman comes of age in a society that decides when every person will die and bands together with rebels to save their community.
EXT. HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL FIELD - LATE AFTERNOON
The sun is shining. Chairs are lined up in front of a podium on one side of the field, while students line up on the other side, dressed in graduation robes.
ROBIN, a tall girl with long brown hair, is standing in line looking around nervously at her classmates.
A few students behind Robin, we see two blonde girls. One is nonchalant, staring at her sister, KENNEDY, while the other seems to be chattering away, SERENITY.
The blonde twins catch Robin's eyes, and the three wave to one another.
Robin faces forward as the school band begins to play the Pomp and Circumstance Graduation Walking March song.
The line of students begin walking across the football field to their seats. Their friends and family watch and support from the bleachers on the side.
BLAIR
Robin! Look up here! Let me get a picture!
Robin looks up to the bleachers to see her mother, BLAIR, a short woman with short brown hair, late 30s, standing in the bleachers with tissue at her eye, camera in hand. She's wearing a maroon, knee length dress that is covered in white signatures-- signed by previous students that are graduating today.
The students stand before their seats. From beside Robin, her classmate JASPER BURNS chuckles.
JASPER BURNS
Mrs. B could never wear a normal outfit.
ROBIN
(smiling proudly)
Yeah, that's my momma.
The band stops playing and the students sit down as the principal walks up the podium. PRINCIPLE WINKMAN, a stout man of 50 with a bald head, stands at the podium.
PRINCIPLE WINKMAN
Ladies and Gentlemen, thank you for gathering out here tonight as we recognize our lovely class of 2021
The audience of friends and family clap, some whoop and shout.
PRINCIPLE WINKMAN
As you know, I'm Principal Winkman and it is my honor to introduce the 2021 class president, Francine Kelly. Francine, if you will, come on up and give her farewell address.
FRANCINE KELLY, a short girl with braided hair, up to the podium as everyone claps for her.
FRANCINE KELLY
Hello friends of ‘21. It has been an honor to guide you all through our time in high school and I am so proud to see each and everyone of your faces sitting before me now. We have been together through it all: Mrs. B’s kindergarten class for some of us...
The crowd of students-- those who had Blair's class-- erupts into cheers. Blair laughed from her seat in the bleachers, blotting tears away from her face.
FRANCINE KELLY (CONT.)
...studying to tears to pass Mr. Dennis’ Chemistry exams,
Boos erupts from the students, Kennedy included, as a tall, slender man of his 30s with salt and pepper hair laughs manically from the back row filled with high school teachers.
FRANCINE KELLY (CONT.)
...and picking one another up after watching loved ones die.
(beat)
Now, we will go out in the world and figure out our next paths. Some of us will go to college and have ample time in this world to fulfill dreams; others will spend their short time left here with their friends and family. One thing is certain: the 20 year reunion is sure to be a much smaller crowd.
Francine finishes her speech and the students and audience clap as she walks back to her seat.