Concrete Garden Plot

Concrete Garden

Our protagonist is aged between 18-21 years old, she has just moved to London to study. She is not overly confident whilst her bodily language depicts the complete opposite. Her name is Emma Jennings and as she is very attractive feels rather alone in her new environment, but naturally is very likable and intelligent. She Starts College where she meets a range of new people all whom she feels will have very little significance in her life. She met with a strange young man similarly aged to her named Mark Francis, he provokes mystery and elements of perversion. Emma learns the ropes around London and soon becomes far more comfortable, as she settles Mark hangs around her more, she shrugs it off at first until she notices him following her home.

We learn more about the background of Emma and learn to sympathise and relate with her as her character is fully established Mark starts to obsessively stalk her. She becomes panicked and feels incredibly vulnerable, he speaks to her in a strange perverted poetic way, and this disturbs her mind. He talks of sex, revenge and religious events- her innocence is made clearer as we notice how she reacts in these dark and twisted situations. Mark starts to become actively involved in her life talking to her all the way home, waiting outside her doors. Emailing her weird images, she doesn’t have any one to rely on accept a few friend as he continues to haunt her.

She receives an email with a masked man telling her that ‘she is needed and she will be eternally rewarded’. This masked character soon becomes an alter ego of Emma and follows her around she cant tell the difference between her mind and reality. The alter ego is reflection of her paranoia and fright and this masked character continues to tell her similar things that Mark has told her on numerous occasions. People start to notice that she is slowly becoming insane, she starts to see Mark as this masked character on occasions he appears to be normal.

One day she feels ill blood drips from her mouth, a bodily change has occurred and she notices marks over her body, without any knowledge of how they appeared there. She tries to leave her house when she opens the door Mark Is there his face barely visible she screams and viscously claws him, he holds her down and tells her that the cult need her and she will be rewarded. Emma becomes frantic and completely insane. He notices her alter ego, and acknowledges the existence- he grabs the mouth of the alter ego and cuts to her in a strange unknown place. Her vision is impaired and she can her weird chanting. Emma greets her masked alter ego, at this stage she is incredibly disturbed and almost lifeless. She is greeted by a panel of similarly masked people, her alter ago goes over and meets them. She is apart of this strange cult, they call her ‘Eve’ and is offered red apples and she is harnessed down to stall. They carry out numerous practices; Mark heads the bizarre sexually provocative displays. Her alter ego tells her that its ok and she needs to let Lucifer take control of her- she continues to scream.