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With a stormy past, a young orphan boy faces the ravages of a fierce hurricane in a resort city at the ocean, in yet another foster home, and a life threatening rat's bite.
FADE IN:
EXT. ATLANTIC OCEAN/ RESORT CITY - DAY
INLET
The immediate aftermath of a powerful hurricane.
Dark overcast stormy sky across a vast body of rough sea.
Seagulls noisily battle against blustering wind gusts. One
seagull sweeps over tighter to the shore, drops and lands on,
BOARDWALK
The tubular pipe railing of a water soaked wooden boardwalk,
stretching out north and south beyond sight.
Violent ocean waves thrash broad rock jetties protracting out
from under the boardwalk, spraying water like enormous
geysers.
A battered wooden pavilion with rod iron benches overhangs
the Oceanside edge of the boardwalk.
CITY SIDE OF BOARDWALK
Ocean waves relentlessly ram a four foot high creosote wall
used as a sand barrier, directing immense columns of water up
and over onto the city side street, flooding it.
The boardwalk ramp extends down to the primary street passing
through the city's center.
Old and new buildings line both sides of the street.
To the left of the ramp, the flooded concrete street follows
the boardwalk north bound, lying beneath ocean water being
sprayed over top of the creosote wall.
A grass blotted strip of ground to the right of the ramp
separates the creosote wall from a ten story brick and block
APARTMENT BUILDING.
A pushed up concrete sidewalk runs the side length of the
Apartment Building.
From the sidewalk, an alley parts the two halves of the
building opening into a sizable courtyard.
The concrete alley and courtyard buried with beach sand and
seaweed.
SANDY BEACH
The beach lays to the south side, cut back by the encroaching
ocean.
A wind damaged playground and fenced in TENNIS COURT sit on
the city side of the beach.
BACKGROUND
Tall brick and block buildings dot the city. Some have their
walls torn away, exhibiting the interior apartments, like
jumbo doll houses.
INT. APARTMENT BUILDING - DAY - CONTINUOUS
A child's bedroom with an early sixties look of a lower
middle class household.
A little boy DANNY KITMEN (7) frail, pale complexion, dressed
in white underwear, lays gazing at the ceiling, daydreaming.
His hands lay flat on his chest.
EXT. ATLANTIC OCEAN/ RESORT CITY - DAY - FLASHBACK
A few years earlier.
Same inlet before the hurricane strikes the city.
The city calm and serene.
Seagulls in flight under a clear early spring sky.
People stroll on a sun dried boardwalk just three feet away
from the gentle tide washing up on the beach under them.
APARTMENT BUILDING
The same building basks in the sunlight, just fifteen feet
from the creosote wall and boardwalk.
The distant sound of gentle waves washing up on the beach.
FRONT ENTRANCE
A sidewalk away from the primary street.
INT. APARTMENT BUILDING - DAY - CONTINUOUS
THE KITCHEN
Sunshine blazes through a window onto the table a little
blonde hair boy, BRIAN(8) sits at, eating a sandwich.
Danny Kitmen, a few years younger, grips the hand of a stout
female CASE WORKER(45) from bureau of children's services,
dark hair, compassionate expression.
Danny gawks at the boy eating. Danny places his fingers to
his lips. He's hungry.
The Case Worker talks in soft tones to a stern looking gray
hair woman, PEGGY (55) wearing a plain blouse. Peggy, a woman
with old fashion strictness, occasionally capable of love and
compassion.
CASE WORKER
Peggy, I hope Danny will find a
good home here with you and Brian.
She glances over at Brian eating.
CASE WORKER (CONT'D)
We've had a very hard time finding
a suitable home for Danny. Though
he is slow, Danny really is no
trouble.
Danny continues to stare at the other boy eating. Danny licks
his lips.
CASE WORKER (CONT'D)
He was admitted to the hospital a
few months ago and abandoned there.
INT. HOSPITAL CHILDREN'S WARD - DAY
Several months earlier.
Danny stands in bed holding on to the side rail, staring out
the window.
THROUGH HOSPITAL WINDOW
The hospital entrance.
Each woman he views walking to the entrance, he starts bouncing
excitedly, than gets sad when he watches them move off.
Danny flops his bottom down in despair.
INT. NURSES STATION - DAY - CONTINUOUS
One NURSE talks to another nurse.
NURSE
Call the state. I don't think
anyone is coming back to pick Danny
Kitmen up.