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INSPIRED BY THE FSA PHOTOGRAPHY PROGRAM (1935 TO 1944).
ALL CHARACTERS AND EVENTS DEPICTED ARE FICTIONAL.
ANY RESEMBLANCE TO REAL PERSONS LIVING OR DEAD IS
COINCIDENTAL.
NOTE: THIS SCREENPLAY IS INTENDED TO BE SHOT IN BLACK AND
WHITE.
FADE IN:
INT. BAKERSFIELD HOTEL ROOM, BATHROOM, 4:14 AM
A single red bulb suspended over a white enamel sink. In the
sink, a developing tray. The smell of fixer and acetic acid.
No window. No sound except a dripping tap.
MARGARET HAYES (36) works in the red light. She is in a man's
undershirt and khaki trousers, bare feet, hair loose. She
moves a photographic print through the developer with a pair
of rubber tongs. The deliberateness of someone doing a
precise thing they have done a thousand times.
The print sharpens.
A woman at the edge of a pea-pickers' camp. Three children
around her. The woman is looking at the camera with an
expression that is not a smile and is not unfriendly and is
not anything the viewer can name exactly. Her hands are in