An Incident In A Small Town

In a small town, where nothing happens, Ally and Denise complain about the boredom. They listen to random conversations in a bar, and decide to follow Dan and Julie, to a barn, where Dan accidentally kills Julie in a fight, when he impales her on the end of a broken pitchfork. Dan believes Julie is dead, and instead of calling an ambulance or the police, he drags her body out of the barn, across a field, to an old abandoned well. All this time, he is watched at a distance by Denise and Ally. Dan drops the body down the well, but it only falls about ten feet down, as there are piles of soft rubbish thrown down the well, up to that height. Dan then walks away from scene. Denise and Ally approach the well. Denise lowers Ally down into the well. Ally can see that Julie is still just about alive. She stands Julie up and Denise tugs her out of the well. Julie is still alive, but she expires in Ally's arms. The police are called and Sheriff Palmer arrests Dan. There is a trial, where Dan is acquitted of Second Degree Murder but found guilty of Involuntary Manslaughter. Much is made of him not realizing Julie was still alive as he dragged her across the field and dropped her into the well. He is sent to prison for three years. Denise and Ally visit Dan in prison, as they think it was unfair he got sent to gaol, as it was self-defence. When he is released, Denise and Ally allow him to stay at their place. Ally reads online that the well has been cleared of rubbish and is now 30 feet deep. Dan is visited by the ghost of Julie who asks him to explain his actions. She points out to him and to Ally and Denise that she could have been saved if they had called an ambulance before Dan threw her down the well. Julie's ghost has no redress for what happened and haunts the three of them, urging them to commit suicide by jumping down the well. They refuse. Julie's ghost then haunts them, causing them to be involved in accidents which kill all three of them. Julie's ghost can now find peace, and she rises up and disappears. This script won the Best Script/Screenplay at Golden Jury International Film Festival.