The film opens with the main character a girl of about 14 named Sarah stumbling
up the stairs and into her room drunk, with the sound of her mother shouting her
dissaproval at her daughter's behaviour still echoing up the stairs. Sarah falls
onto her bed and immediately passes out. As she come back around, she sees a
girl around the same age as her sat at the end of her bed staring at her. Sarah,
as expected, first begins screaming for help and when she realises no-one's
coming, begins to question the girl (e.g. 'Who are you? How did you get in
here?'), to which she is answered with silence. The girl then explains that
Sarah is in fact still unconscious but is about to die of alcohol poisoning, and
that what she is experiencing is limbo. The girl then offers Sarah a trade, she
would be would not die of alcohol poisoning, but someone somewhere in the world
would have never been born. Sarah deliberates for a while about the decision,
but being a selfish person, eventually agrees to the deal, because she believes
that she herself has great potential and would probably achieve more than this
person anyway. The girl accepts and gets up to leave. Sarah asks the girl who
the person would be, to which the girl replies 'You, of course.' Sarah then
passes out again, at which point the viewer can assume she is in fact
dead.
This idea is kind of inspired by a show that used to be on when I
was a kid called Are You Afraid of the Dark, where there would be these
short-films with a supernatural undertone and a cautionary tale behind it.
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