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Synopsis

Shrink
If Size Matters...
by
Willem van Heemstra
[ONE-PAGE SYNOPSIS]

Claire, a smartly-dressed, bespectacled professional in her thirties, is on her first psychiatric case. Failing this session, for her, is failing in life. She is left with 28 minutes.

Ivana, late sixties and lounging on the chaise longue, is asked politely to answer Claire’s final question about whether size matters to her.

Much to Claire’s surprise this triggers Ivana to talk at length about her life in publishing, from the present back to her childhood. During her monologue, she vividly describes how books have shrunk down to microscopic size over the years, Ivana’s head literally ages back to that of her as a child.

Meanwhile Claire becomes desperate as she is running out of time and space to write, which forces her handwriting to get smaller and smaller as the story unfolds. When the lead of Claire’s pencil snaps, she gives up and escapes from the room. Ivana follows her into the waiting room, a large poster of her new bestseller on the wall ‘How to become a shrink’. Unnerved she turns to the row of Claire look-alikes. Next!