FADE IN:

Instrumental music plays throughout.

INT. UNIVERSITY - HALLWAY - DAY

Students traverse back and forth.

Some appear to soon REVERSE DIRECTION - moving backwards, yet

are focused ahead as though walking forward as normal.

The action speeds up very quickly...and then slows...

DISSOLVE TO:

INT. CLASSROOM - DAY

Nearly empty, with two exceptions.

A GIRL, 20s, who sits toward the front of the room by a

window, and a pensive looking GUY. Also in his twenties, he

sits toward the back of the room in the row next to hers.

She rests her head in her hand, looks out the window. He

stares at her, though he drops his eyes every so often to

seem as if he isn’t. Resumes watching her again.

She lifts a hand mirror up to look at herself. Brushes her

fingertips slowly across her forehead, moving the hair that

falls in front of it away.

She sees him watching her. Attraction in his eyes.

She tries to ignore it by concentrating on herself, but her

eyes inevitably fall back upon him. Her lips crease into the

tiniest smile.

He has a book open that he appears to be reading, but instead

he craftily folds paper beneath his desk.

She is openly watching at him with curiosity when he finally

raises his head and hand. Reveals to her

AN ORIGAMI ROSE

Which he extends in her direction.

DISSOLVE TO:

2.

INT. CLASSROOM - LATER

SERIES OF CUTS

They sit close together in various postures.

His feet up on the desk, her legs crossed. He clasps his

hands behind his head. She laughs. He smiles at her,

listening to her talk.

INSERT

The HANDS OF A WALL CLOCK spin.

INT. UNIVERSITY - HALLWAY - DAY

Students speed quickly through.

INT. UNIVERSITY - COURTYARD - DAY

A virtual kaleidoscope of students and faculty moving quickly

in a myriad of directions.

INT. CLASSROOM - DAY

The two laugh together, clearly smitten with one another. We

concentrate upon the window and shift

OUTSIDE

To where autumn leaves quickly fall from trees. The trees

die, snow blanketing their limbs. Subsequently melts as the

sun returns and sprouts grow into full fledged leaves...

Spring.

END CUTS

INT. CLASSROOM - DAY

The couple laugh and are suddenly quiet again. Staring into

one another’s eyes.

Her eyes closing, she leans in slowly to kiss him... her lips

moving towards us...

DISSOLVE TO:

3.

A RED ROSE PETAL falls onto the surface of a desk and comes

to rest. A HAND brushes it away.

We’re above looking down. More fall. A TORRENT of petals

showering the desk. Another moment and they slow to cease

falling.

ON GUY

Standing at her desk, he places the ORIGAMI ROSE delicately

down on top of the petals. Slings his backpack on his back.

Leaves the room.

The girl lays on the floor near the desk, her eyes closed.

EXT. CLASSROOM - DAY

The door swings closed behind him as he exits. A sign is

posted.

“NO 2 P.M. CLASS TODAY”

He removes it.

INT. CLASSROOM - DAY

ON GIRL

Still curled up on the floor. Unmoving. Her mirror close to

her open hand, cracked.

FADE TO:

INT. HALLWAY - DAY

The guy walks down the hall amongst hundreds of other

oblivious students. Some of them moving backwards.

GUY (V.O.)

We are strangers before a chance

meeting. I see you or you see me,

and for a moment we are one... And

it’s like time stops. People move

around us in their own little

worlds, perhaps waiting to

experience our seemingly perpetual

state of bliss...

But then at what point does it all

turn?

4.

In a sudden turn of events, students begin all moving the

same forward direction. Walking no faster than normal.

FADE TO BLACK.