EXT. WALKING ON DOWN SLOPE IN A MOUNTAIN – LATE AFTERNOON
A man and a boy are walking down a slope mountain with a slow heavy pace through a watershed. Their numb feet wrapped up in rags that are drenched with chilly water. Everything around them is gray and there are no traces of green anywhere. The man is dragging behind him the cart that contains some of the provisions like rotten food to survive while in the rough road going south. The cart gets stuck. He looks up at the sound of sharp crack above them. Then, the man leaves the stuck cart and reaches the boy’s hand.
The boy extends his hand to the man, and the man abruptly grabs the boy by his hips. Suddenly, both rolled forward into the mountain steep slope. When they stopped rolling down, the boy is on top of the man. The man’s face reflects the boy’s fears as he looks into the boy’s eyes.
MAN
(calmly)
Don’t be scared. I am here to take care of you. Nothing is going a happen.
BOY
(presses his right cheek into the man’s chest)
What was that daddy?
MAN
Sorry that I had to do this my boy. But that sound … and it is nothing more, than falling trees…
BOY
(starts crying)
But there are too many and it feels like falling on us.
MAN
(whispers in the boy’s ears)
Trust me. I promise you. They won’t fall on us. Just take a look the road above us.
BOY
Yea dad! You’re right! There is lots of dead tress in the road up there and we already passed that and now we are down here.
MAN
You see… that when I tell you that everything will be alright is true! Do you believe in me? Do you trust me?
BOY
(stands up)
I trust you daddy and I love you daddy. Give me your hand, stand up and let’s get to that place over there…that looks so flat and so cool.
MAN
(stands up)
Thanks my big boy. You’re becoming my little man. Wait for me here. Don’t move! I need to go back there to get our stuff.
(The man starts going back the road toward the pick of the mountain)
BOY
(shouts)
Be careful daddy!… I love you daddy!!!