Original plot by MONIKA NAGY
English version by Monika Nagy&Fab Caleffi
a Celebrity group short movie project © 2004
1#
A Man is runnin' on his bike in a country Italian landscape. He looks like a
MD, 'cause his old lather luggage carrying with.
2#
The Man arrives in a small town. He goes to seat on a table at the outdoor of
a little cafeteria, where old men are drinkin' and playing a cards gamble. He
tries to play with them. When the young gorgeous Waitress comes out of the cafeteria,
the Man opens his bag and suddenly a light wind discovers the girl's long leg.
The old men smile for the jock, but, when the "MD" says that is his
bag has made it, they ask him hardly to go away.
3#
The Man on bike is running belong a street near the see, in Venice (Lido), Italy.
An old female voice over speaks to the Man, tellin' him she's goin' to leave
for a long, probably no return journey by train; before leaving, she wants to
let Avigdor (the Man's name) a gift. She is the Man's Grandma.
4#
Venice, Italy. The Man is showing his bag to some yachtmen sitting near the
San Marco Yacht Club. He confirms he can make a good wind blow for their yacht
everytime. The yachtmen answer that is no a sportsmen way to ship and they ask
him to go away.
5#
Flash back: once upon a time, Santa Lucia railway station in Venice.
Avigdor has just found his Grandma Sarah bag in a box of the station. Sarah's
overvoice explains: finally you has arrived, Avi! Here is your gift.
Avigdor looks at an old photo of Sarah. After, he opens the bag and a wild wind
blows on his face. Avi is in Venice's Ghetto, the first in the world.
6#
Avigdor is now on a moving train crossing a Northern Italy landscape. He opens
his leather bag: it's empty.
How kind of gift is this? he asks to himself.
The train arrives in Milano Central station. Avi decides to let the bag on the
train, forgetting it. But a passenger, opened the train window, throws it on
him.
Avi has to get the bag again.
Oy oy oy, grosse mamele, he thinks.
Goin' out of the station, Avi sees Milano in black and white. The sky is grey.
All is grey. All is sad and grey.
Avigdor gets up the Duomo Cathedral. When he arrives on the top, he opens again
his bag and a stormy wind cleans the sky, the town and the citizens' souls.
The Man can see in colours again.
Now Avi is happy: he knows what is his Grandma Sarah gift!
But his portable rings: they call him from L.A., California 'cause they want
to buy Avi's antismog disposal, as they say.
He answers he can't sell anybody Sarah's gift.
But if they need a cleaning wind and they ask courtesly for it to him...
This is a contemporary tale.