In a small house in a dystopian future a young girl called Kate (5) cleans and tidies the house. Kate’s dad Greg also cleans downstairs. Kate comes out of her room and walks downstairs with the hoover. She reaches the base of the stairs. In the living room her mum Fi is sitting on the sofa using an inhaler, a folded wheelchair is resting against the arm rest. Kate looks through and sees Fi is watching the TV and the film ‘Apollo 13’ is playing. It is the scene before Tom Hanks’ character goes to space and he is looking at the size of the moon in comparison to the size of his thumb. She reaches the hall where Greg then tells her to go back upstairs and clean her sisters room as well, irritated she walks back up the stairs and begins tidying and hoovering her sister’s room. As she reaches the window she sees a small butterfly knocking against the window. Shocked she quickly turns off the hoover and puts a stool close to the window and stands on it to be the same height as the butterfly. She then starts tapping on the window at the butterfly. It appears to struggle on the ledge fluttering one wing only slightly, after a short time the butterfly flies off and the girl stares out the window as it disappears. She goes downstairs and outside through the kitchen to an outside store of recycled packaging. Varied compartments range across a small shed, each holding a different material. i.e Card, Plastic, Aluminium. Greg sees her and asks what she’s doing and she replies that she is going to take mum to the moon. Greg replies be careful and she begins to construct a rocket out of boxes and bottles. Once she has completed making the rocket she goes indoors to Greg and Fi who are now sitting in the living room watching television. She says that the rocket is ready and that they need to come outside. Greg begins to explain that it’s not real that she won’t really be able to go. As he is mid sentence Fi puts her hand gently on his and he stops speaking. They walk outside and towards the garage. Greg opens the garage door, inside is a large rocket, made from boxes and tin foil. Greg walks towards Fi and begins to push her in to the garage but the girl buts Greg out of the way and pushes Fi in herself. The dad waits outside the garage. Once Kate has pushed Fi in to the garage she goes to the garage door and closes it leaving Greg outside. Kate pushes Fi inside the rocket. They sit in the rocket and look around them. Kate asks if Fi is ready for lift off and her mum silently nods. Kate begins to work at turning the levers, pushing the buttons and working the controls on the rocket. The soundscape of the lift off of ‘Apollo 13’ is heard as the girl ‘takes’ her mum to the moon.
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