MD1800 Assignment 1
Glendha Santos
When the new wife of a head of a gang is left with the burden of caring for a millionaire hostage who owed them a large amount of money, his loyalty and involvement in her husband's business are put to the test. Knowing it would be a matter of time until he get rid of her if he did not see his wife able to cope with their daily crimes, she did not think twice before accepting the position immediately in order to prove herself to him.
Being left alone for the first time with a hostage of high importance, her integrity quickly begins to fall as the millionaire starts playing with her weaknesses and emotions as the hours passed. Aiming to break her down to the point that she would let him go free, after a couple of days as a hostage, he begins to sensitize the women showing her that he was nothing but a victim in the hands of her violent criminal husband, who destroyed his life and his family in order to keep the money.
After he finally managed to convince her that he was a decent and innocent man, touched by his story and confused about her desire to be a part of it, the woman relents and set him free, only to realize that once saw in freedom, he put a gun to her head.
"You failed", it was the last thing she could hear.

Comments from the author
To write this story I relied on the first picture that was presented to us in the first week of the Storytelling for the Screen Seminar. That picture helped me to create this story especially by the look of the female character towards her hostage: she looked sad, disappointed and doubtful in her actions.
I must say I changed this story at least five times before this final edition and now I think it was my biggest mistake. I have lost a lot of information about the characters trying to reduce its length but I presume the key facts that create the scenario are still present and