EXT. NEAR THE PLANTATION - DAWN - 18X0

Two girls, WALNUT and LISA SHARP, aged 3 and 5 respectively, stand beside one another barefoot on an old dirt road.

They watch a wagon disappear over a hill. Chained to the back of a wagon is a man. He refuses to look at his daughters.

Lisa Sharp is suspended in grief. She wails with her head hung back.

Walnut looks down at her toy. It strikes her that a component of it is missing and it will not work without it.

The man makes the mistake of taking a last look.

Walnut is running toward him. She waves the toy in the air, falls over herself, scrapes her knees. Worst of all, she's smiling.

The man could cry...

But he doesn't.

Clumsily, he LEAPS from the wagon!

His chain yanks him back and he nearly gets flattened under its massive wheel.

He rolls on the wagon's outer side so that he can pull his wrists against the grain; His chain SNAPS between him and the wagon’s back wheel.

He can't believe that actually worked!

Walnut and her dad mirror other's childish glee...

...to such an extent...

...that by the time they embrace...

...both are laughing hysterically.

Walnut hands the toy to her dad.

He takes a piece out of his pocket.

The toy's missing wing exposes its sophisticated mechanical innerworkings.

The wing clicks into place. The WINGED FIGURINE is now whole.

Her dad gently draws his wrist back and sends the toy skyward.

Walnut watches in wonder as her toy maintains flight, its mechanical wings fluttering in the bleached sunlight.

She catches it as it falls.

When the Walnut turns around, her father's limp body is being thrown back onto the wagon by two white men. A bloody rock is on the ground.