George aka GG is an ordinary British man who works as an accountant in an international firm in India and UK. He travels with his family between two countries. GG has a white freckly daughter who is smart enough to remember the story and tell us later. She helps her parents with her unbelievable skills.
While job of GG is not easy to do, he devotes himself to it without problem. His every day is work, work, and work. Of course, it doesn’t hurt his family; they know he does it for goodness of all of them.
Benjamin is a black young ambitious tailor who works in his office in central Delhi. He has plans for his future. Success in job for him means making fashionable new cloths that people dare to pay a lot to buy.
But how Benjamin gets to know GG? One day Benjamin was working in his office and was tired that incidentally got to see a shrunk man on top of his working table. It was a moment to fear. How did he accept the reality? He didn’t, at beginning, he was totally lost. He just fainted for seeing him and after it he was escaping from the shrunk GG. Whether GG was hidden in a coat or he found a way to settle there, Benjamin had to believe he now relates to a story nobody will believe. Maybe it was easier to believe it is a dream than believing not, but why didn’t it get to an end?
Benjamin soon understands that GG was one of his customers who recently gave him a fabric to sew. But Benjamin doesn’t have a good memory, unlike GG’s daughter, Angelica, who is very good memory.
Angelica finds that her mom is very upset and she should do something. Father didn’t come back. Her family calls police, but police did not do anything after about two weeks. She knows her father is not without enemies. The evil people who are in battle with a good accountant are nothing unusual in corrupted old timer India. Mr Shrimp and his dirty subordinate fellows do whatever to keep their wrong jobs secret to others. After two weeks police looked everywhere and inspected every suspect. She knew those evil men did it, but didn’t know how they persuaded police that they didn’t kidnap him, nor know where he is. Maybe it was true, and she was looking in a wrong place. She told herself “Daddy is probably not kidnapped, she is probably lost”. But was it possible? She finds no response; she calls a friend of dad and wants him to want the police search for him again. She knows that there are some people who hate daddy, because he does his job righteously. The father’s friend soon understands that her daddy is shrunk, but can’t tell her. He says something happened that now your father is lost. After requesting more, he tells your daddy is shrunk and can be everywhere.
Angelica likes her father a lot. She does know the police is incapable and can’t do anything. So, she and another teen friend Arjun go to where she thinks daddy went that day. That’s the place she thinks they will find her father. She wants him to go along with him before anyone understands it. They get to there, the office of Benjamin Tailor, but he doesn’t trust them and doesn’t tell the reality. His emphases on not allowing them to look for their lost watch makes them think the father is surely in there and he knows it.
They wait for him to leave office, but he doesn’t until mid-night, when there is really dark and they fear in loneliness.
He comes and then opens the door, her father didn’t like them to see him in that condition, because didn’t know what happens when she sees him so, but seeing very dark night becomes a reason they accepted it.
The next day morning, they begin to think what to do. While none of them except Arjun are India’s native, Benjamin says that he has a good friend who is well aware of tradition of India; he may know how they should act.
They call him, and he has to come from another city. But since it is emergency, he promises to arrive soon. In his way to that city, he encounters some robbers, but it passes luckily.
Meanwhile, they ate some mango and the remaining of it with some half and some unused exist. One mouse is there and will escape. Benjamin turns on a light and gets a glass of water and while walking talks about last week’s attempt to buy an American cigarettes and that could not buy him happiness, because there were total 20 mice in the street he counted them. Or maybe 19 or 18. He says that the point is that nobody can count the mice in the city, even if one has a good math skill. “Not me, not you, that’s shit”: he says.
Then Angelica after a while says she has to go to toilet and then goes quickly. Suddenly, the weather changes dramatically and it will be rainy after wind and being cloudy when she is not there. And they get ready for new weather.
One knocks the door, GG hides, and Benjamin goes to doorstep and sees from hole that it is his friend who is wet with three chickens with hen (the mother) and a little duck there. Then, Benjamin says he knows that he is a pro-animals-right that follows the mother for the chickens kilometers, and hardly he won’t find it. Can you tell my little friends … who is this? Who? Me? No… no, this duck? She was alone, so…. Does it matter to you? Benjamin answers Not really, of course, your animal friends have no place inside, they should pass the night out.
Benjamin says that we have a special case here, and that I didn’t want to say suddenly, but we have a friend here, of course now he is shrunk. We expect you to help him come back to his own size.
He says he doesn’t get surprised, because when you call him, it should be a special case. But they called the wrong person, because he knows little about it. For finding someone who can really help, they should go to the south, or they have to own lots of money to make one of them come here. Of course, in both cases, that happens hardly, they fear to continue their works after Great Britain’s govt in India forbad their working.
He says there is another way, too, that could be better. We wait for a few weeks until one of them are seen in the city; they usually come for visiting the old temple.
They accept and he says deliver it to him and he will take care of that. It is not true to kill their trusts.
He then changes cloths of himself & goes.
Then camera comes down & shows one underground room in whose water dropping. In there, there are a lot of documents, stuffs, bed & it is evident it is empty now temporary. One cigarette is still lit.
The Benjamin’s friend left and they are without him in the room. But suddenly, one rings/knocks. Benjamin goes to see from door’s hole, and sees it is his friend comes back. It is him and maybe forgot something. But when Benjamin’s friend opens the door, it is a Chinese baby, and Benjamin what is this? He says doesn’t know, he did nothing wrong, just read. It is written “We have to, Mommy and Daddy”. While they are thinking what to do for this new problem, one man is shown who has a rope in his hand and they close a man around fire and they beat him to confess if that lost money is all others understood or there are more things leaked; and if he knows place of those documents or not. Two boys are shown later who secretly see the scene and regret.
Then Britain’s princess behind a horse in a cart comes to the scene. Tells something shortly and then goes. One receives the message and sends to the appropriate person ie Mr Shrimp.
After two weeks, the news comes that the friend of Benjamin who wanted to help is killed. Now, they have to go to the rural region in southern India, it is a hard travel, they give the Chinese child to police and travel through a long way to there and find out that they don’t accept to see non-Indian people. They had a female translator who was their tour-leader, and she accepts to pay for it some money to them and get the secret solution. She brings the answer, and says they said they can provide them with it if they pay more money. They get happy, but the one decides to escape, they understand and catch him and he gives them the drug (tears of female crocodile). He says can no longer live there, because those who did it to him will come to look for the one who gave them drug. He goes.
Then the battle between those enemies with GG and friends starts.
It is season of rain. Some from Britain come and GG will be chosen as the responsible for finding the corruption clues. Indian Police arrests the subordinate follows who were Indian. The British Police arrests Mr Shrimp. The news about partnership of a princess gets cracked down, but that will remain as a dirty point for royal family. 60 years pass and Angelica tells the story to her grandchildren in India.
EXT. RIVER YAMUNA – INDIA - 2009
Many people out, colourful fabrics, children playing.
OLD WOMAN, 60, wind blowing her hair, gazes at the river.
YOUNG GIRL and TEEN BOY, both eating ice cream, stand beside her.
OLD WOMAN
A long time passed.
TEEN BOY tosses his ice cream into the river.
OLD WOMAN
My father was an accountant, you know. Working for a tea company in Britain. His head was always so full of numbers. In those times people worked hard to make a dream a reality for Britain. Nobody had time for anyone else. I can say it was holy.
A last long gaze at the river. Young Girl moves closer, offers her ice cream to Old Woman. Old Woman smile, waves no. A deep breath.
OLD WOMAN
Everyone was working hard.
FADE TO
EXT. LONDON – 1949 – ESTABLISHING
Quiet streets. Rows and rows of office buildings.
INT. LONDON APARTMENT - DAY
Simple and clean. A set of stairs dominates the entry. TEEN GIRL #1 and TEEN GIRL #2 embrace.
TEEN GIRL #2
Upstairs. Nobody’s there.
Teen Girl #2 leads Teen Girl #1 up the stairs.
INT. LONDON APARTMENT – UPSTAIRS – DAY
Teen Girl #1 and #2 arrive, Teen Girl #1 sees YOUNG BOY, 3, playing with a toy.
TEEN GIRL #1
You said nobody was here.
TEEN GIRL #2
I meant nobody old.
Teen girl #1 sees Young Boy set a drinking glass on a heater.
TEEN GIRL #1
That’s going to break!
Just then the glass shatters.
TEEN GIRL #2
Oh, no! My mother is going to be mad!
TEEN GIRL #1
I’ll clean it …
Teen Girl #2 stops her.
TEEN GIRL #2
My mother doesn’t like strangers to touch anything in the house.
TEEN GIRL #1
Even if they’re helping?
Teen Girl #2 nods, turns to Young Boy.
TEEN GIRL #2
Don’t say anything.
Young Boy nods, sulks.
Teen Girl #2 dashes away, returns with a broom, sweeps up the glass.
EXT. RIVER YAMUNA – INDIA - 2009
Young Girl and Teen Boy stand by the water.
OLD WOMAN
That was my last day in the UK. After that, we moved to here. To India. Supposedly for four years, but we were ready to go back after two weeks.
A long, pensive gaze over the water, a glance at Teen Boy and Young Girl.
OLD WOMAN
Something happened, though. Something that changed the path of our lives.
She wipes a tear.
OLD WOMAN
We would never go back.
YOUNG GIRL
Never? What happened?
OLD WOMAN
It is a secret.
YOUNG GIRL
I won’t tell anyone.
TEEN BOY
Secret means secret.
YOUNG GIRL
Jack the liar. You just want to ask when I am not here.
TEEN BOY
You are still a kid.
YOUNG GIRL
I’m not! And I am going to school next year.
OLD WOMAN
OK, well. I tell the story, but you should promise before how to like each other.
TEEN BOY
I am a man.
OLD WOMAN
Yes, you are a man, but be silent now, so you can hear every word.
Young Gill and Teen Boy move in closer, all smiles. All ears.
OLD WOMAN
My father was given the tears of a crocodile. An Indian crocodile. He needed the tears of a female to get back to his real size. Of course, it wasn’t easy to find these. There were difficulties we couldn’t imagine.
YOUNG GIRL
Maybe one day we’ll be like that.
OLD WOMAN
I hope you won't.
EXT. MAHARASHTRA STATE - INDIA - 1949
Orange trees and hills.
EXT. DIRT PATH - DAY
A blue moon illuminates ORANGE SELLER walking along side a donkey pulling a wagon filled with oranges. The wagon hits a rut and spills several of the oranges. Some roll down the hill.
Orange Seller scrambles to get the oranges, runs down the hill to gather the rest.
At the bottom of the hill he sees GG lying still. Eyes and mouth shut tight, hands balled in fists, skin wet with sweat. Orange Seller studies him a moment.
ORANGE SELLER
Hello?
GG slowly opens his eyes. Can’t speak.
Orange Seller takes a piece of cloth from his pocket, kneels to wipe sweat from GGs face. GG watches Orange Seller.
ORANGE SELLER
I know you.
GG
How is that so? We have only just met, and not under the best of conditions. I have lost my oranges, and you … why are you here?
ORANGE SELLER
You work in the tea company.
Orange Seller helps GG sit up.
GG
I look like anyone and everyone who works there.
ORANGE SELLER
I pay attention. I see everything.
Then perhaps you can help me find all the oranges.
He pulls GG to his feet, points around the hill where oranges lay scattered.
ORANGE SELLER
And help me carry them up there.
He points to the wagon and donkey.
GG and Orange Seller gather oranges, put them in boxes. GG tires quickly. As he carries the last box of oranges to the wagon …
GG
You picked a very hot day to spill your oranges.
ORANGE SELLER
I did not pick the day, nor did I choose to spill the oranges.
Orange Seller takes a bucket of water and a ladle and offers it to GG. GG holds out his arms. Orange Seller nods, dumps the water over GGs head.
GG smiles big, and hollers.
GG takes a small notepad from his pocket, writes his name and hands it to Orange Seller.
GG
Your kindness came at the right moment.
He waves, then heads toward river.
ORANGE SELLER
Wait! You didn’t tell me how you got here?
No response. He watches as GG searches, then finds a small doll in amongst the reeds and trash. GG holds up the doll for Orange Seller to see.
GG
For my daughter.
He then walks deeper into the reed until he is out of sight. Orange Seller scratching his head a moment, then puts the donkey and wagon in motion.
SUPER: 1951
EXT. CLOTHING SHOP – DAY
A golden sign reads BENJAMIN TAILORS
INT. CLOTHING SHOP – DAY
Samples of clothes hang on racks.
In the back, a small sewing room where machines and bolts of cloth and piles of cuttings. FLOOR SUOERVISOR, a wiry Black man, stands tall behind WORKER #1, then leans over his shoulder to inspect the work.
Worker #1 trembles, tries to keep his concentration. Floor Supervisor leans closer, eyes squinting. Mouth pinched.
YOUNG GG, 20s, strong body and long blonde hair - and very tiny – sits on a shelf, watches the situation. He suddenly stands …
YOUNG GG
Don’t let him frighten you!
Black man hears the tiny voice, then sees GG on the shelf. Black Man startles, falls back, hits his head. He is a biz woozy.
GG grabs onto a piece of fabric, slides down like a rope to the sewing room floor. He approaches Black Man.
Black Man sees the tine GG …
BLACK MAN
No! Don’t come near me!
GG hides behind a table leg.
GG (O.C.)
If you don’t want to see me, then please, just listen.
Black Man tries to move away, rubbing his sore head.
BLACK MAN
Stay away I tell you!