Broken Time trailer - video transcript

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

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