"The Second Grave"

The Second Grave (working title)

Characters:
Sara - Narrator
Bret – Sara’s Boyfriend/Protagonist
Dennis – Bret’s Best Friend
“Vingo” – Drug Dealer/Antagonist
Drug Dealer Minions (2)

Character Descriptions:
Sara Abayan:
- 24 when story starts
- 23 when story takes place
- Is a college student
- Father left when she was 10
- Lived with her mother who had to work two jobs so Sara was left to care for herself, as a result she grew up very quickly
- She is mature, resilient, responsible, carries a sad air about her
- Dated Bret for five years (met when she was 18)
- Lived with Bret

Bret Lane:
- Dead when story starts (but we don’t know this)
- 24 when story takes place
- Mother died of a heart attack (she smoked a lot) when he was 15
- Bret’s dad was an alcoholic since his mother died. (Not in the story as a character, only referenced)
- Bret also pretty much raised himself as he grew up
- Very quiet, sad eyes, but still pulls through and is relatively happen

Dennis Ashworth:
- Dead when story starts (but we don’t know this)
- 23 when story takes place
- Pot Dealer. Buys big bags. Deals to college kids.
- Comes from a relatively stable but dysfunctional family

“Vingo”:
- Heavy Drug Dealer
- Supplies Dennis
- Went to High School with the Bret and Dennis
- 24 years old when story takes place
- In jail when story starts
- Smokes lots of cigarettes

Basic Plot Description:
The film starts with Sara alone in an apartment packing up some boxes. It looks as though she is moving but she is packing up mostly some man's things. She starts narrating about the difficulty of life while she puts a picture of a mother and a little boy in a frame with a clipping from a newspaper. It is an obituary. She thens goes on to say that life wasn't always this way. Cut back to a living room scene with three early twenty somethings. We recognize Sara, and her boyfriend Bret is introduced along with their best friend Dennis. They are laughing and enjoying a night together, which is the last night Dennis is alive. They find out the next day in the newspaper that Dennis had been murdered by his drug dealer. Dennis' drug dealer - Vingo - is let off for the murder of Dennis. This obviously upsets Bret and he starts to withdraw into himself. He has lost faith in the system. He spends the next couple of weeks contemplating what he should do, or if he should do anything at all. Finally when Bret is out one night he sees Vingo and his goons eating at a fast food restaurant, laughing. He snaps. He rushes in and punches Vingo across the cheek and then drags him outside and starts beating him. Vingo's goons try to stop Bret but he knocks one of them out and breaks the other ones knee. He goes back to Vingo who has gotten up and gotten a gun and then shoots Bret, who dies on the spot. The movie ends with a montage of Vingo getting arrested and tried and headlines of Bret's death and an obituary. Which we then see Sara put into the box next to Bret's mother.

Actors:
Sara: Nicole, Ryan, Jess
Bret: Chris, Bien, Michael
Dennis: Bien...
Vingo: Ted...
Goons: Nick...