Story Outline

 Hey guys, today I am finalizing the story outline!!

The film opens in silence, with a nondiegetic sound of a clock ticking as several shots of the inside of Isabel's house are displayed. The shots include her messy kitchen, an empty kid's room, and her sleeping alone. Her alarm rings and she wakes up to take pills and drink coffee before going on a walk. She begins walking around a school park watching the parents with their children. As she does so, she begins having flashbacks of Leo. The flashbacks include her pushing him on the swings she sees before her and sitting on the bench with him which she now sits in alone. The clear distinction between Isabel then and now will be marked by the costume design, lighting, and her attitude, which indicate that she was once happy. However, these flashbacks turn dark when she remembers that she left Leo alone in the park to grab something in the car and was unable to find him when she went back. Back in real-time, a boy that looks like Leo appears before Isa and smiles at her. Taken aback, she begins asking the boy if he is Leo, but the boy is mute. She walks away and sees the kid following her, so she takes him by the hand and they go to the car. Ecstatic she buckles him into the car seat she still has and drives away.

She arrives back home and starts to fix the boy's food until she hears police sirens in the distance. This breaks her hypnotic-like trance and she realizes what she had just done. She realizes that is not Leo and begins to freak out upon discerning that she had just kidnapped a kid. Isa goes to pick up the phone, but quickly puts it down and is in an internal conflict with herself as she questions whether to report herself or not. Hearing the sirens again, she becomes paranoid and believes the authorities already know what she has done. She panics and takes the boy to her bathroom and locks them both in there. The boy simply stares at her as she begins pacing back and forth waiting for the police to arrive. She begins apologizing to the boy, explaining what she had done and why but he simply stared back again. Isa realizes the cops are not actually after her, but after confessing everything to the boy, she knows what she must do. 

Isa unlocks the door and they both leave the bathroom. She makes the boy sit on the couch as she picks up the phone and calls 911. She tells the officer that she has kidnapped a boy and that he is sitting with her right now. Another officer is heard on the phone saying, "That's just Isabel, she does this at least once a week. Just leave her alone she will realize soon enough".The story flashes back to when she found the boy in the park, when she was driving him home, when she was preparing him food. and when they were in the bathroom, except in these flashes the boy was never there. Now revealed to the audience that Isa has been imagining everything, it flashes back to the present time where she is on the phone with the police. Confused, she hangs up and looks over to the boy, only to find out he is not there.