Drama
CHARACTERS
MIRIN, 20s - 30s, sweet, excitable, blindly optimistic, high-strung
VAL, 20s - 30s, intelligent, calculating, cynical, resigned
TIME
The very near future
PLACE
A small spacecraft, orbiting Earth
(We are in a one-room spacecraft, suggested by a pair of sleek chairs at a control board and the dull hum of a machine somewhere out of sight. VAL is absorbed in reading from a small, handheld screen. MIRIN enters.)
MIRIN
You didn鈥檛 tell me the probe was back!!
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OVER BLACK:
鈥淗ow To Disappear Completely鈥 by Radiohead plays in the background. Quietly. You鈥檇 have to be a pretty big fan to figure out what's playing.
GUS (V.O.)
In Jean-Paul Sartre鈥檚 first book, 狈补耻蝉别补鈥 or La Naus茅e if you鈥檙e linguistically inclined鈥 he wrote about the 鈥渟weetish sickness.鈥 It was
a book about a writer who felt his life filling with the creeping apathy. Indifference
like an oil spill. The Nausea.
FADE IN:
INT. BEDROOM- MORNING
It鈥檚 7 in the morning, indicated by an old-fashioned alarm clock on his bedside table.
Everything in the room is gray鈥 it looks like an Ikea showroom. The majority of the
鈥減ersonality鈥 in the room comes from dirty cups, old clothes, and empty pizza boxes
scattered across the room.