A scene is set
[Boat engine whirs]
[Engine noise abruptly cuts out]
[Distant traffic sounds]
[Birds chirp]
[Middle Eastern string instrument begins playing]
[Music fades out and is replaced by the sound of traffic]
[Birds chirp softly]
[Tense music starts playing]
[Voices speak softly in the distance]
[A car drives past]
[Tense music resumes]
WOMAN CASEWORKER: ‘Night’
[Phone rings]
MAN CASEWORKER: ‘Night’
[Middle Eastern string instrument resumes and fades out]
WOMAN CASEWORKER: ‘Yes Tom.’
MAN CASEWORKER: ‘The refugee lad you sent over this afternoon?’
WOMAN CASEWORKER: ‘Ali? Yes?’
MAN CASEWORKER: ‘He’s done a runner’.
WOMAN CASEWORKER: ‘He’s what?’
[Middle Eastern string instrument resumes]
[Middle Eastern string instrument fades but continues playing softly]
HOMELESS GIRL: ‘I ran away from home when I was 16.
‘My dad started beating my mum and I again, and mum stared drinking again so I left I haven’t seen either of them since and I don’t want to see either of them again’.
ALI: ‘I would do anything to see my family’
[Middle Eastern string instrument plays more loudly]
ENDS