THE PROPHETESS

 

by

 

Hugo Santander

 

 

 

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                        Towards the end of the sixteenth

                        century Philip the Second, King of

                        Spain, undertook the invasion of

                        England. As the ruler of the most

                        powerful army of his time, 'La

                        Armada,' he was challenged by

                        Lucrecia de León, a 20-year-old

                        maiden who foresaw the

                        destruction of Philip's navy upon

                        the English shores…

 

              INT/EXT. WEEKEND HOUSE CLOSE TO MADRID, 1590. SUNRISE.

 

              21 year-old LUCRECIA, wearing a white underwear dress, is

              looking out a wide window.

 

              A beam of sunlight enters, brightening her face. Her

              expression is blank. The wind touches her hair. Her lips are

              dry. Under the frame of the window is DIEGO, her lover, in

              the foreground of a terra-cotta flat landscape.

 

              There is a soft whisper in the air. In the distance, a small

              cloud of dust hovers in the air. Diego comes inside the

              bedroom and dresses quickly.