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ELSA (V.O.) Some call it ‘The American Desert’, others ‘The Great Plains’, but those phrases were invented by professors at universities, surrounded by the illusion of order and the fantasy of right and wrong ... To know it you must walk it. Bleed into it’s dirt. Drown in its
rivers. Then it’s name becomes clear. It is hell. And there are demons everywhere. Slowly, she crawls to the light. Disappears into it ... WITH HER AS SHE STANDS -- She is tall. As tall as most men these days. Her hair is the color of straw. She turns back and looks behind her -- The shade was provided by a covered wagon. A wagon that is now engulfed in flames. Like the horizon, the angry flames reach to the sky, then fade into it ... Elsa walks from the burning wagon. Looks to her right and spots more wagons -- all burning. THE THUNDER OF A GUN SHOT SHATTERS THE SILENCE. She looks to her left, sees -- From a wagon, bullets punch through white canvas and into two men painted the color of the sky -- blue and white. They fall back from their horses as more men scream and fire flaming arrows into the wagon, which bursts into flames as well ... More rifle rounds erupt from the wagon, then a man leaps from the rear of it, firing as he runs ... The LAKOTA WARRIORS race after the man on horseback, firing rifle rounds and arrows into him. He drops, screaming. The warriors’ horses dance around him as they fire arrows into the man’s chest and stomach. Then he is silent ... Elsa looks to her burning wagon then the endless horizon, then runs ... The Lakota watch as she runs, look over the other wagons, then give chase ... Elsa hears the horses’ hooves behind her, sees the body of a man in front of her.
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