INT. AIRPLANE - NIGHT
Loud hum of the the jet engines.
Everyone is sleeping
There is a faint blue light, it's quiet.
Light turbulence.. cutlery clatters.
A little Indian girl sits by the window.
Her father, a bald, slightly overweight Indian man is sleeping, resting his head on his wives shoulder.
His wife is also sleep, but her head is leaning against the headrest. Her mouth is wide open.
The little girl is playing with a Rubik's cube.
Flip, flip, flip, flip, click.
She tries again.. no success.
She places the cube on the tray and kicks it away softly with her fingers.
Turbulence.. the rubix cube bops back to her.
She kicks it again.. beat.. it rattles back to her.
PING...
AIR STEWARD
Ladies and gentlemen, the captain has turned on the fasten seat belt sign due to expected turbulence. Please return to your seats and fasten your seat belts securely. We recommend that you remain seated with your seat belt fastened until the sign is turned off. Thank you for your cooperation.
The little girl looks up at the seatbelt sign.
She, with her tiny hands, puts on her massive seat belt.
The Rubik's cube rattles, and falls under the seat.
She tries to reach the Rubik cube, but she is locked in.
She unplugs her seatbelt. She kind of drops out of her seat and looks for the Rubik cube but she can't find it.
Her little hands under the seat as she tries to find it.
MOM
Anju!
Her mom grabs her and gets her back on the seat and puts her seat belt on.
Her mom goes back to sleep.
Anju just sits there with empty hands.
She puts the dinner tray down, and plays with the sides.
She rubs the top, feels the sides, the metal button.
She open the window blind, and looks out. BLACK.
She closes the window blind.
She looks around. An air steward walks past.
She stops next to another air steward and talks. They are giggling about something.
The air steward then walks to a man, and talks to him.
Anju looks back at the seat, the TV is playing some cartoon, but she is bored of it.
She looks at her parents, both are sleeping.
She looks at her hands.
We hear.. FLIP.. FLIP.. FLIP
She recognises the sound.
She looks back, she takes off her seatbelt and look through the gap on the back of her seat.
She sees an Scottish man, maybe in his 80's, focusing hard on something.
The man, is focused, but he catches the indian girl looking at him. He does a double take.
He kind of nods at her like, what do you want?
The girl looks away. She looks ahead. Thinks.
She puts her seat belt back on.
She then slowly pull at her mom.
FLIP, FLIP, FLIP..
Her mom is fast asleep, she is not waking up.
She doesn't know what to do.
She takes off her seat belt, turn around and looks through the gap again.
The old man is still at it.. focused.
She leans in a bit more to get a better view.
He is playing with a Rubik's cube.
The girl gets up and sticks her head above the seat and looks down at the old man.
The old man looks up at her, and seeing her he puts the Rubik's cube in his pocket.
Anju puts her hand out and gestures to give it back.
The old man looks at the Rubik's cube, looks at her.
He puts it in his pocket.
Anju, is annoyed.
Light turbulence.
Anju looks up and sees an air steward making eye contact with her.
She quickly sits back down and puts her seat belt on.
Beat.
She looks up, and she sees the old man looking down at her from above.
He hands over the Rubik's cube.. its solved.
Anju takes the Rubik's cube and sees it perfectly aligned.
She looks back at him.
He has got a smirk, and sits back down.
Massive turbulence.. we hear a massive THUMP and YELP off screen
OLD MAN
FUUUUCK SAKE MAN!!
He lets out a massive yelp.
Everyone wakes up.. everyone is confused.
We hear this kind of weird .. vibrato of a yelp.. like an old horse.
Everyone looks over at the old man.
Air steward comes running.
AIR STEWARD
Sir! You need to be wearing your seat belt.
Anju is sitting at her seat, not caring a world.
She is smiling, she randomises the Rubik's cube, and she is trying to solve it again.
FLIP.. FLIP.. BLACK
THE END.