54. The Travellers - Leslie

• FADE IN:


• INT. EMPTY TRAIN CARGO CAR - DUSK


• AMEE sits against her large, tattered North Face backpack playing with a piece of straw.


• Her feet bounce on the wooden slats of the train car as it rumbles its way through the day.


• VIRIN is curled up against his own backpack a few feet away from her, watching through a crack in the siding as the landscape flies past.


• They are both dirty and ragged from months of travel. Hippies lost in a 21st century world.


• AMEE
• Virin. Virin!


• He turns to face her.


• AMEE
• I'm out.


• VIRIN
• Excuse me?


• AMEE
• I'm ready. It's time to go.


• VIRIN
• What are you talking about? Go where?


• AMEE
• This, this thing. I'm ready to move on. It's been amazing, but I'm ready to get out. It's time to move on with life.


• VIRIN
• Again...what else is there? You gonna go sell out to that?


• He waves his hand at the world in general.


• The train begins to slow.


• AMEE
• Look...there's the ideal, and then there's life. We're living in this ideal, and I think it's time to figure out what real life is, and how to make the ideal real.


• VIRIN
• You're selling out. You're just following the same line of propaganda...what are you going to do, go blindly after the American Dream like all the other sheep.


• AMEE
• Virin, we're all talk. Ok, so we're doing the nomadic thing...but so what? What's that really doing? It's a protest in a desert. I want to figure out how to effect something. I don't know anything yet, but I'm going to try.


• Virin looks at her blankly.


• The train slows as it passes an intersection, the low buildings of a midwest town coming into view.


• Amee stands, leans over, and kisses Virin on the cheek.


• AMEE
• Thank you. Don't you worry, I'll always be a Traveller.


• She turns, pushes her pack off the train, the jumps out, rolling onto a meadow. She grabs the pack, and picks it up, not looking back.


• Virin sits in the car, still staring out the door, as the train picks up speed.


• FADE TO BLACK.