On an open grassy field, a man in a gas mask and army fatigue is marching along the area with a large backpack. The song “the great pretender” by the Platters is playing during this sequence. Eventually, he stumbles on a random trunk in the middle of nowhere. He opens it up to find it filled with old reels of film. He picks up the trunk and rushes off with it.
We follow him shortly through a series of tunnels as we hear echoey voices emit all around them. He eventually makes it back to safety and switches on the lights to reveal a mini bunker filled with bits and bobs. he searches through his belongings until he finds an old projector which he props up and turns on after putting in one of the film reels.
The film is a family spending sometime together. Many of the films are small snippets of time of different cultures and moments. enamoured by what he sees, he begins to recreate the things he sees in the films with the objects around him.He continues to do this without any sign of stopping, until a different film comes on.
The film shows wartime footage and it stops the man dead in his tracks. As he stares blankly at what he sees. It shows more footage of increasing horror and the film stops and goes to credits.
An after credits scene shows the man back on the moor, but then he sees the figure of a woman in the distance who is also wearing a gas mask. The final shot is of him looking ahead.
So I don't destroy the formatting of it, here is a link to the script for your viewing pleasure: Link
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