Family Tree
Young widow, Mr Sycamore is dwelling on his tragic life, his memories triggered by the tree near his house. The film opens with an establishing shot of the tree, then pans to the man at his desk looking out the window at the tree, sorrow drowning his face. The man then walks to the tree holding some flowers and it flashbacks to when he was a young boy, meeting a young girl at the tree. Flashback to present day and the man is still walking towards the tree, slowly and depressingly. Then we see the children running around the tree in a flashback. The present day man walks up to the tree and rests his head on it, we see a carving of a love heart and initials in it and he touches the wood. He then pulls a photo out of his pocket, it shows his wedding, under the tree where he is standing. Another flashback shows him and his new wife running from their wedding to the tree, the symbol of their love. The flashbacks move on to a picnic under the tree, with his wife and son. A pan around the tree and there is sat just the lonely old man on his own. The flashbacks become more fragmented, the family are in the car in the dark, rain pounding on the windows. Mr Sycamore is on his phone, for business and doesn't see the car swerving right into the side of him, the side where his wife and boy are sat. A blackout, screams and sirens are heard until we come back to the present day man, crying, crumpled at the bottom of the tree. In the dull distance a figure appears, a laughing, smiling girl running towards him in her wedding dress; his wife. For a brief second he stands up and walks towards her, tears wiped away, until she vanishes. Destroyed, the man grabs some rope and climbs the tree. The final thing we see is the mans legs, dangling from the tree, the tree that was once a symbol of love and family, is now drowned in death.
