1 – INT – DAY – OFFICE

 

MAYA’s boss is sitting opposite her in his office.

 

 

BOSS

I can’t give you the promotion

MAYA

What? But I did everything. Look!

 

 

She puts her notebook in-front of him which is filled with a to-do for work that is neatly organised with arrows and colour.

 

 

BOSS

Yeah, I’m aware you did everything I asked. But that doesn’t change anything.

MAYA

You said you’d give me the promotion if I did all of this

BOSS

Yeah. Things change.

 

2 – INT – DAY – HOUSE

 

MAYA enters her house looking defeated. She drops her stuff on the floor. She heads upstairs.

 

3 – INT – DAY – BEDROOM

 

She enters the room and crosses go to work of her to-do list and then heads to a closet. When she opens it, you see it’s actually full of fairy lights and cushions not clothes. She turns on the fairy lights, sits down, brings out a book and starts reading. She is content and somewhat happy.

 

 

4 – INT – DAY – OFFICE

 

MAYA sits at her desk looking bored and defeated. She sifts through work and aimlessly clicks things on her computer. She’s given up. The BOSS walks past and waves. She gives a small wave back.

 

 

5 – INT – DAY – CLOSET

 

MAYA turns on her fairy lights and proceeds to sit down and read again. After a while, she looks away from her book too busy thinking.

 

[IMAGINING] MAYA hears a strange noise from outside the closet. When she opens the door, the room is blue and there is a DVD on the floor addressed to her, with a light up arrow pointing towards it. MAYA picks it up and heads downstairs to the living room.

 

 

6 – INT – N/A – LIVING ROOM

 

MAYA places the DVD into the player and sits and waits patiently. It begins to play.

 

 

MAYA FROM THE FUTURE

Hi, I’m Maya, from the future. I’m you from the future. I get it’s a bit weird, but you’ll have to get passed that to listen to me.

MAYA smiles lightly to herself.

 

MAYA F

I’m not going to tell you were we ended up. I don’t want to mess anything up. But it went well, really, it did. I learnt along the way that what we decide to do matters much more than we think. Not just to the people around us, but ourselves. I wish I learnt that sooner, and now I guess I have. You’ve got strangers to meet and places to leave. It’s all waiting for you. Good luck.

 

The DVD ends. MAYA smiles.

 

7 – INT – DAY – CLOSET

 

[END OF IMAGININING] MAYA is smiling. She puts her book down and leaves the closet, adding ‘Quit job’ on her to-do list. She then goes back inside her closet.

 

8 – INT – DAY – OFFICE

 

MAYA

I quit, I’m giving you my three weeks’ notice

BOSS

What?

MAYA

I’m leaving

BOSS

But you were voted least likely to leave

9 – INT – DAY – PICTURES ON A WALL

 

Staff pictures hang on a wall with descriptions of each employee. MAYA was voted ‘least likely to leave’.

 

 

10 – INT – DAY – OFFICE

 

 

BOSS

Why are you leaving?

MAYA

I have better things to do

BOSS

Like what?

MAYA

I don’t know for sure yet but anything. Maybe I’ll start writing.

BOSS

I can’t believe this. (he sighs) Good luck then.

The BOSS gestures for her to leave. She does.

 

 

11 – DAY – OUTISDE

 

MAYA is happy. She leaves the workplace building.