She’s been hired to babysit two teenagers too old to need a babysitter. They intimidate her, bully her, drive her into the attic. She cowers there, listening from the door as the two girls wreck havok in the house below.
or
A man is applying for a large grant. He reads his grant application to his closest friend, who advises him against every point. When the man does not get the large grant, the other man goes to great lengths to be demonstratively gentlemanly about it – even though his original counter-arguments had been so ridiculous!
or
A man fancies himself a gourmand and goes to the market one day. He is single, and no longer young. While there he sees a young woman in line waiting for a duck. The man goes up and gets in line behind her, and begins to flirt. She hesitates, but he continues. He’s telling her his favorite duck recipe. As he does so, he begins to gather small ingredients off the racks around him, and starts a demonstration of the recipe.
Soon people gather to watch him prepare the recipe. The meal sounds mouth-watering. The woman, we can only assume, is as charmed as we are.
or
Two guys are racing on foot through a very crowded city. It’s the day of a festival – everyone’s out in costumes and singing songs, playing ball, having street BBQs. It is clear that the first man who reaches the river wins something tangible, that there is more at stake here than just pride.
The men begin the race far apart, so they never know where the other is in relation – whether one’s closing in on the other, or taking a totally different route, or perhaps reached the finish line.
We follow one of the two men over the course of the race. The city is heavily secured, with travel between one zone and another a locked-down transaction of papers and assurances. Every few minutes, the man reaches another zone.
and
He weaves through the city – running next to the animals that have been brought out to march the streets, the elephants and the zebras, and the high school bands, and the general pandemonium. He begins to realize that the man he’s racing is somewhere nearby, maybe he catches glimpses of him.
or
The man gets lost
and
he calls it a fucking day.
