Research Folder: Initial Ideas

My initial idea for a screenplay is based on a girl, aged 23, named Esme Carter who is studying Classics at The University of Manchester. After university she heads off on a trip to Rome and Athens, to discover and explore everything she had learnt about over the previous 3 years. On her first day in Rome, she travels to her hotel and settles in, discovering the roof terrace where she looks out over the whole of the city. She goes to visit the Vatican and the Trevi fountain before going to a little restaurant up a back street to eat. She spends 2 days in Rome before taking a flight to Athens, to her surprise she bumps into a fellow classmate of her classics course, James Wright. As they find out they are staying in the same hotel together, having arrived in early evening they leave to go have a bite to eat. That night Esme dreams about a young woman, long brown hair which is lightly curled, in a white long dress. She's looking after children in a village, talking to them and giving them food. Esme is quickly woken up by the alarm. She gets up and has breakfast and sets out to explore the sights, starting at the Agora market, then to the Acropolis of Athens, in Parthenon she feels strangely close the place, finding it beautiful and breathtaking. She is all by herself in the ruins when she hears a laughter, thinking its another tourist she dismisses this, she hears footsteps so she turns around to see no one. she turns back around to see a female in a long white dress go behind a plinth, she calls out and has no reply before seeing her move to the next plinth, this is the girl she dreamt about. Walking towards the plinth she hears another giggle, when she reaches the plinth no one is there.