In a small house in a dystopian future a young girl (5) cleans and tidy’s the house. The girls dad also cleans downstairs. The young girl comes out of her room and walks downstairs with the hoover. She reaches the base of the stairs. In the living room her mum is sitting on the sofa using an inhaler, a folded wheelchair is resting against the arm rest. She reaches the hall where her dad 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 sisters 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. Her dad sees her and asks what she’s doing and she replies that she is going to take mum to the moon. Her dad 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 her mum and dad who are now sitting in the living room watching television. She says that the rocket is ready and that they need to come outside. Her dad begins to explain that its not real that she won’t really be able to go. As he is mid sentence the girls mum puts her hand gently on his and he stops speaking. They all go outside and on the middle of the grass is a rocket. The girl goes round to the back of her mums wheel chair and pushes her in to the rocket. They sit in the rocket and look around them. The girl asks if her mum likes it and her mum silently nods. The girl sits on her mums lap and they sit in the rocket.
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