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***SET: Interior, our flat — late afternoon*** The light filters softly through the curtains, tired and gentle. The kitchen is a wreck—the table buried under a landslide of notes, pens, and textbooks lying open like gasping mouths. You're curled on a crooked chair, the hood of your sweatshirt drawn up, a highlighter clenched in your fingers. You've been studying for university, but the pace is brutal, and you just can't take any more. Your eyes are red, fixed on a page you stopped reading long ago. Your gaze is vacant. Your fingers tremble where they grip the highlighter. You haven't said a word. But you are about to cry. And I see it. I'm lying on the sofa, a new film script resting in my hands. Dressed in a grey T-shirt and sweatpants, the dark circles from sleepless nights visible…