Progress of Script

Madonna - Abby

Mom - Sam

Daughter - Nadya

Beginning

• Massacre
• Escape

Middle

• Visit to river
• Teaching the call and-response

End

• Dead baby

• Police
• End with madonna and child repeating game again?

Madonna: It’s time to teach her what your mother taught you.

Mom: No. She’s too young.

Madonna: And you’re too old.

Who are you?

I’m a child of that place. I come down from that long trail of blood.

Where are you going?

I am walking into the dawn.

Who are you?

I am the first daughter of the first star.

Where do you drink when you're thirsty?

I drink the tears from the madonna's eyes.

And if not there?

I drink the dew.

And if you can't find the dew?

I drink from the rain before it falls.

And if you can't drink there?

I drink from the turtles hide.

How did you find your way to me?

By the light of the mermaid’s comb.

Where does your mother come from?

Thunderbolts, lighting, and all things that soar.

Who are you?

I come from the puddle of that river.

Speak to me.

You hear my mother who speaks through me. She’s the shadow that follows my shadow. The flame at the tip of my candle. The ripple in the stream where I wash my face. Yes. I will eat my tongue if I ever whisper that name, the name of that place across the river, that took my mother from me.