Stoker

STOKER

It all starts with a Girl walking to a field. There she stands, and she tells us that she wears the blouse of her Mum, the belt of her Dad and the Shoes of her Uncle. 

And that once you understand that´s you are not responsible who you came to be and becoming an adult means to become free.

A Girl is running through the Grasses, she stops and takes her Shoe off, she´d sit and pierce the blubble she´d get by wearing no socks. She is looking for something - searching through the garden, the tennis court and as she climbs on a tree, she finds a Present with a Happy Birthday Card on it.

There is a Birthday Cake on the table - the Phone rings - 

and we hear the scream of a Woman and a Man´s name.

A Funeral the Girl and her Mum sitting in the first row. The Daughter is called India and her Father has died, just on her birthday. A close up to her Shoes, she still wears the same ones next to her Mums High heels.

And in the distance we see a man standing on the old Graveyards.

The Funeral Celebration moved into the House of the Family, India sits at a Piano and plays a softly Melody. As a Spider makes its move towards her. And as she listens to her Mum see watches the Spider silently crawling up her leg.

She went to the kitchen. She hears the Maids talking about her Dad, who did burn to crisp. They´re talking about how close India was to her father, and that rather then her Mother watch over her, it´ll be the other way around. She cracks a egg to the table and cracks it slowly open my rolling it on the table, so she can´t hear their talking anymore.

India´s Caretaker, an old Woman tries to make her smile by her jokes about her Devil Eggs. And as she goes down to clear the egg shales that had fallen to the floor, she asks India if she had grown out of her shoes and India remembers her Present Box up in the tree.

Every Birthday she had become a new Pair of Shoes of the same kind...but this time the Box was empty. But the woman tells her to look again, India had always thought that her Dad gave his Boxes to her, but know it seems it was her Caretaker all along. 

She´d found a key in the Box that she wears now around her neck. But what does it open?

The Woman doesn´t have an answer to that-

She reconizes a Voice - so she goes into the Livingroom where the Guests are standing and talking. And there is a man she doesn´t know. And her Mum introduces him as Uncle Charlie.

But she just stays silent, remembering him standing on this Graveyards at the Cemetery. Back in the litchen she remembers herself that her Father is dead.

She lies on her bed, surrounded by the Shoes that were giving to her every Year on her Birthday.

Her Uncle stands in the Private Room of his Brother, India´s Mum tell´s him how proud his Brother were on everything India had killed herself on their Hunting Adventures - he stuffed every animal of her.

And he praises that some Kinds of this birds are really hard to catch. As her Mum says rather annoyd, that they were a really good team.

India walks through the whispering and talking crowd in their House, she steals looks of her Uncle, watching as her Caretaker is stunned by the look of him. 

The watches their talk - 

Do they know each other? The Woman looks rather fearfull up to him. As he suddenly turns and their eyes met, she immediately turns away.

As she crosses his path, he turns smiling to the other direction. His eyes are following her. And while she goes he starts to follow her through the room.

But before he can catch up with her, he is disturbed and taken by her Mum.

We see India walking Outdoor. As she is coming back in through the front door. As she sits on the stairs, her Uncle speaks from the 1.st floor. He encourages her to come up and stand of the same height as him. He just looks like her father, when he was younger. How no one did ever tell her about him?

Her Mother is letting him stay in their House, but he wants to be okay with it, he says it´s important to him. And as he walks down. He starts to whistle a Melody.

In the Morning the same Melody is awakening her, her Uncle is working in the Garden. He notices her starring from above pretty fast, I think he started to work under her Window on purpose.

As she walks through the garden, she suddenly hears voices, she hides behind one of the trees and see´s how her uncle talks to her Caretaker, she says she would have been his ears, his hands, his eyes. But that she would be tired now and he says he understands - but what does that mean?