THE MISDIRECTION: OPENING SCENE

Annabel Bates as Anna

This photo still reflects the Opening part of the story where we first meet Anna and her young child Renaud. They are described living in a dilapidated block of flats as they sleep during a cold winter’s night. Anna awakes as a cold breeze catches her at her leg which is outside the blanket. She wakes from her dream and for a moment is unsure of where she is. She looks to a clock at the side of her bed and then sees the boarding on the window has broken. She looks again at the clock and sees the picture of Joe nearby which she brings to her face. She slips out from the bed, puts a coat over her child and slumps against the wall and drifts into half sleep, half awake. The story follows her thoughts as she looks into the picture and thinks about the past when she lived in South France, just before meeting him