LIFEART STUDIO

7/01

(Saturday 3:45pm)

Claudia is being brought onto the main stage where Peter stands in some sort of a ritual fashion. She’s frantically looking through the crowd, hoping to see her father.

The ceremony is packed with tripping villagers, in full ceremonial costumes. This is a combination of some twisted old rituals, and a burning-man style party.

Peter- clearly high on his own drugs - gives a long inspired speech to his believers - about why he allows himself to marry: 

“Things cannot simply stay the same… change is coming! The High Priest was given a heavenly sign, when a spitting image of the past came back in present time! It is my divine obligation to rise up to the challenge, and impregnate this holy spirit with what is sure to become the greatest pure blooded Aryan being of all times!”

Claudia on stage is stressed out of her mind, being talked about like an object, presented for all to see as if she’s some kind of trophy. This feels like medieval slavory. She frantically looks for her dad in the crowd, and seems to finally see him.

7/02

Nick, dressed as a local - now with an added ritual mask to better hide his face, tries to mingle in the crowd with Leo during the ceremony. Their worried eyes all the time at poor Claudia. 

Nick sees Claudia looking straight at him and tries to calm her down with his eyes, through the crazed mask he’s wearing.

Peter’s intent to marry does not go down well with everyone - he is obviously breaking the most sacred rule of their order. There are some murmuring in the crowd, but Peter’s women army makes its presence shown and positions around the center stage. With that the crowd seems to be quieting down. 

All this commotion is messing up with Nick’s and Leo’s plans to rescue Claudia. They are now unable to reach her.

Leo then diverts Nick’s attention to some commotion from the side office - a few guys are looking for Thomas. They are now coming towards where Leo and Nick are. 

It dawns on Nick that others around are starting to stare at him - sensing something is wrong. It seems like the village is about to close down on them.

7/03

Peter, sensing the angry crowd could go the wrong way, decides to skip the formalities and get right to the important task at hand before it’s too late. He sneaks off the main stage dragging Claudia with him. 

Claudia reacts frantically, trying to resist shouting “dad, dad!!”, looking to find Nick in the crowd - but he’s no longer there. Peter is too crazed to hear Claudia’s screams.

7/04

Peter drags Claudia by her hair up to his room with the intent of impregnating her right then and there.

An uncomfortable scene - Peter’s girl helpers get Claudia neaked as she is kicking and screaming. He then orders them to leave the room.

Erica confronts him. It’s not too late for him to stop this craziness. He is too pure to be breaking the rules like this, and this girl is not worth it... 

“It should be me!” she says with anger; Then softly: “ Have I not been everything for you? What’s wrong with me?!”

Peter relaxes, advances toward her with a smile, then changes his demeanor and slaps her with full force. 

“Know your place woman! I told you to get out!”

Erica, hurt, leaves the room on the verge of tears.

7/05

Peter - all drugged and in love with himself and his power is finally alone with his prey. He is looking at naked Claudia that seems to have reached a mental breaking point. She slowly stops resisting and begins to obey. It looks like her dad is failing her again. No one is coming to the rescue. 

Peter notices the change in Claudia. She finally broke! Without an immediate erection, Peter has her come close, then pushes her head down towards oral sex, only to see Nick standing right there! 

A thick wooden log hitting Peter right in the face.

7/06

(Saturday 4:15PM)

Nick, Claudia and Leo escaping - each of the men supporting Claudia from each side.

Coming down the round stairs from Peter’s room they surprise Erica just as she’s coming up. Leo manages to quickly kick her in the face and she flies down the stairs, falls knocked out on the floor. They then continue running through the main hall, then out and down the long stairs of Peter’s compound.

7/07

Reaching the bottom of the stairs they can now see the gate and start walking towards it. 

They encounter the two guys that were looking for Thomas before. Leo and Nick each hold Claudia from her sides (as if a prisoner), Nick with his head down and the ritual mask on his face. 

The guys are asking them (in German) if they’ve seen Thomas - Leo says no (as they keep walking towards the gate). They then ask “where are you taking her?”, Leo explains they are taking her for purification in the river - “Peter’s orders”. The guys joke about it - “You guys are gonna have fun, you bastards! “

Then the main guy tries to figure out who is the guy next to Leo. He notices his bandaged arm and asks him something in German about it. Nick just mumbles some fake German answer,  Leo hurrys their paste.

7/08

The guy is even more intrigued, who is it ? “Etgar, is that you? “ he now gets closer to Nick who keeps his back to them and his masked head down while they keep walking. 

He gets closer and closer, “Etgar? Eine Kline Shvine!” - he jokes with the guy who he thinks must be his buddy Etgar. 

He finally arrives at Nick, holds him by the shoulder, turns him around, and pulls up his mask, surprised to see Nick. 

Before he can react, he gets a knife in the back (Leo from behind). 

The other guy, terrified, turns around and starts running. The group doesn't have time to go after him, they continue running towards the gate.

7/09

(Saturday 4:30PM)

They finally make it and run out the gates with no clear plan. There is no one there to pick them up. They just killed a second guy, another one is probably getting help by now, and Peter might wake up any minute. 

They take off by foot. Leo is not happy about this - the odds are completely against them. Some of the villagers (of the outside village) are looking at this with interest.

7/10

Peter awakens on the floor of his bedroom - his nose heavily bleeding. He raises hell screaming at the top of his lungs (his tripping, bleeding, and very angry) and signs the alarm. 

The sound is loud and ancient, and echoes through the mountains.

7/11

Our group on the run hears it very well and their collective stress level rises sharply.

The local villagers are starting to gather around them in greater numbers. They seem to be cornered.

7/12

All of the sudden Shena arrives blazing along with two villagers - from the village where she and Nick got caught two nights earlier - each riding a horse. 

The gathering local villagers are momentarily taken aback,

Shena: “Hop on, lets go!!”

Nick, Claudia and Leo - each hops on a horse, and they start riding out. (One villager carries Nick, the other carries Leo. Shena carries Claudia).

Shena updates them as they go: she managed to contact Sunjee to arrange a rescue: they’ve got just less than an hour and a half to get to a nearby area where a helicopter will be picking them up at exactly 6pm. She shows Leo a spot on the map, making it there in less than 1.5 hours is a stretch… Leo leads the way and the group presses on.

7/13

a group of Aryans with sticks, ropes and automatic weapons starts pouring out the village (male villagers, and women from Peter’s private “women army”, including Erica - who is now injured and particularly pissed). Some on foot, some on motorcycles. Peter amongst them, riding in a craze! 

A Mad Max looking chase is on. The way out of the valley and down the mountain has multiple natural and improvised paths along the mountain sides, and changing plane fields. Both Leo who is leading the group on the run and the raging Aryans chasing them, know the terrain very well. During the chase the Aryans take changing and alternate routes to try and tackle the escapers.

7/14

Shena, Leo, Nick, Claudia and the two riders are on a frantic run. The ride is dangerous, they can easily fall off the mountainsides, and have to jump through scary gaps and over mixed dry and icy terrain. In one such problematic area, the group slows down and crosses a thin passage one at a time, with Nick and his rider crossing last. 

Shots fired, a bullet misses Nick’s head and hits the villager he’s riding with, who instantly falls off the horse. Nick, face bloody, is utterly shocked and with his one good arm tries to make sense of his now frantic horse. The group ahead continues in great haste and Nick is falling behind.

Noise of motorcycles and shouts in German around him, he is panicking.

7/15

Leo and his rider are still at the lead, Shena and Claudia riding behind them. 

Suddenly Erica arrives riding a motorcycle from the neighboring hilltop on the left, turning a lasso rope with a hook at its end over her head. She throws it with great expertise catching Leo by the shoulder, and pulls him off the horse as he screams with unimaginable pain.

Shena and Claudia stop the horse with a great scream, and Shena quickly diverts her horse to a different path on their right.

Leo is now being dragged on the ground with rope attached to the raging motorcycle. Erica diverts the bike down towards the path on which Leo’s rider is still riding on, raging directly towards him, forcing him to take a sharp turn to a side road on the left, and out of sight. 

Crazed, she continues forward in full speed with Leo being pulled on the hard rocky grounds, while shouting at Leo in German: “That’s what you get for bringing that fucking bitch into our lives you rotten traitor!”

7/16

Nick is considerably behind but can see most of what is happening in the distance. The things he has gone through in the past 24 hours are like nothing he’s ever experienced. He is chased by crazed Nazi’s and seems to be losing his daughter.

He now rides more frantically, not feeling any pain in his arm anymore, just trying to get to Claudia, mumbling to himself “I’m sorry, I’m so sorry” and screaming “Claudia!!” at the top of his lungs.

7/17

Erica on the bike pulling Leo by a rope - as he screams of pain and begging for his life. They are blazing towards a sharp turn on the mountain side. With a wide smile Erica turns again only to release the rope, and Leo flys off the side of the mountains, diving to his death. 

At that very second Shena gets a clean shot from across, hitting Erica in the chest and she goes flying off the cliff too, along with the bike.

7/18

Other Aryans closing-in from the adjacent hill top.

Shena (and Claudia on the horse) is back to riding at full speed, navigating their way with the help of a digital tracker (given to her by Sanjee). They reach a rope bridge. Shena: “This must be it, right after this bridge!”. They get off the horse and go through it by foot. 

Claudia keeps looking back shouting to her dad that is now finally visible in the distance, riding towards them on his horse, Aryans on his tail. Shena pulls her to advance - “we’re almost there, it's almost 6 oclock, we can’t stop now!”, they disappear behind a rocky mountain hillside.

7/19

Nick finally gains control of the horse, face bloody, racing to catch up with Shena and Claudia which he could still see somewhere in the distance up until they disappeared some seconds ago. Raging Aryans blazing at his tail, led by Peter. 

Nick arrives at the rope bridge, gets off and it is apparent that he is afraid of heights. His fear paralyzes him momentarily, but sounds of Aryans closing in pushes him to get on, and he manages to go through most of it. Just then 

BOOM BOOM BOOM!

shots fired hitting Nick in the right thigh and he slips off the rope bridge, barely managing to hang on his one good arm. Nick is hanging for dear life.  

A helicopter sound is heard from afar.

More shots coming his direction just when Shena arrives and fires back, holding off the shooters, offers her hand pulling him up and dragging him to safety behind the hillside rock -  directly in front of where their meeting point is set for the helicopter.

7/20

Claudia runs to her injured dad, while Shena keeps shooting at the attackers, holding them off. As long as she keeps them away from the bridge they’ve got an advantage on the Aryans - that do not have a direct fire line from where they are.

Nick and Claudia having an urgent heart to heart conversation, as if it is their final moments together.

Nick expresses everything he ever wanted to say to Claudia. He apologies for everything he hasn’t been to all of the important people in his life, ever. It seems like he is looking for her to repent his sins, in the name of all of those people he’s hurt in the past.

Claudia - still semi drugged and exploding with emotions - hugs her father in tears, takes it all in and assures him that he is now everything she ever wanted him to be. He changed into the most beautiful thing right in front of her very eyes these past weeks. She is so very proud of him. 

This is an amazing closure moment between father and daughter, while Shena empties all her ammunition keeping the Aryans away.

7/21

(Saturday 6PM)

The helicopter arrives, it’s Sanjee in all his might, flying with great skill navigating the old helicopter to a narrow stretch on the side of the mountain. Nick, with a bandaged left arm and a bullet whole in his right thigh, pushes Claudia onto Shena’s arms and urges them to board the helicopter. 

“I’ll stay to cover you until you make it up there, and will then join you. Go Go Go”

Claudia screams at her dad to come, but he realizes that if he won’t stay to guard the corner, the helicopter itself will get hit with direct fire in no time, and no one will make it out alive.  

“I’ll be right behind you Claudia go now! Go!”

Great commotion sounds from behind the rock as the Aryans get closer, some of which started crossing the bridge by foot.

7/22

The magnitude of the moment suddenly dawns on Shena. This could totally go wrong and Nick might not make it. These past few weeks he touched her heart deeper than anyone ever has, losing him now would be devastating…. tormented by all this she pushes Claudia forward towards the helicopter. 

More and more Aryans are advancing towards Nick.