Sleepless
• Girl sees her neighbour bury / kill his wife when she is little
• Moves away?
• New teacher at her school when she is older – her old neighbour. She doesn’t recognise him but he recognises her name and works out who she is
• Starts to have dreams
• Each dream gives her a bit more information about what she saw happening
• She starts to talk about it with friends / maybe a school counsellor?
• The teacher overhears / finds this out (or is the counsellor himself?) and tries to persuade her and everybody else that she is mentally ill
• As she continues to dream, the teacher realises that she will eventually realise that it is a memory more than a dream and that she will identify him.
• He starts trying to keep her awake so that she won’t find out the truth.
Issues / Thoughts
• What happens at the end of the film? We won’t see it in the trailer but we need to know. Is she rescued? Maybe by another character who might be a suspect too?
• How does he try to keep her awake? Drugs? Other?
• There need to be other suspects / characters to confuse things a bit
• She probably needs a best friend to talk to or a diary or something like that so we can do some easy storytelling
• What does the teacher do to make her think she is going mad?
• Does everyone start to believe this? Does the girl?
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