BEFORE IT STOPS

INT. MOTHER'S APARTMENT - KITCHEN - NIGHT

Bare shelves. Boxes stacked by the door. NADIA (30s) presses tape across
the flaps of the last box and sets it down on the table.

Her phone lights up beside it: THEO CALLING.

She looks at the screen. She does not move.

The phone keeps ringing.

Her hand drifts toward it. Stops.

One ring left before it would go to voicemail.

Her hand closes over the phone. She answers.

                              NADIA
                    Hey.

A beat. She waits for him to answer, phone pressed hard to her ear.

FADE OUT.