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 The court orders depriving vulnerable children of their ‘liberty’ - BBC News

‘Our foster child asked us to adopt him – by drawing himself on to a family photo’ - BBC News

These two news stories gave me the idea of a film where there is a girl, 16-17 years old, who has been passed through the foster care system time and time again and is now being kept in an unsuitable housing situation in an abandoned building or above a supermarket. There will be a little love story arch between her and another girl being kept there. I would focus on their stories, trauma, mental health etc. A new child gets brought in who is a little boy around 4 years old and they look out for him. At some point one of the girls has to leave because a foster place opened up for them and we cut between her experience there and the other girl with the child. The girl at the foster home actually has good people looking after her and they help her get a job etc to make enough money to look after herself when she turns 18. At the end the couple move away into the forest and live a ‘cottage-core’ life with their little boy whom they have adopted.

The opening title scene:

Wide establishing shot of a girl sitting crouched over in an abandoned building, hood up, rain pouring down, various different extreme close ups of her hands and face, edit the colour of the shot to make it darker and gloomier, sound track in parallel to the scene maybe she is wearing headphones, no dialogue and minimal action just the right amount of different images to keep the audience guessing and asking themselves questions.

Or

Beeping of supermarket and supermarket noises and movement then camera turns up and moves through the ceiling to see the girl and then close ups like above but this time the girl is in a corner of a dark room with other children around her but she is clearly slightly separated trying to get some space and have a break.