TWO by TWO (2023)

Leo and Eden flirt with each other during an elevator ride when the elevator suddenly breaks down. While Leo is calling for help with the emergency button, Eden is having a severe panic attack, she’s shaking, sweating and reaching for air. When he turns around, he sees the panicking Eden. He then tries to calm her down by making her talk to him, to take her mind off things. Leo tells her that, his therapist told him, to think of unique and nice childhood memories. Eden starts to talk about a happy childhood memory, how she liked to play hide and seek at the “Cadre Valley Park”. Meanwhile she caught her breath and Leo tells her that he used to go to the same place as well and starts describing his memory at the park. But this gets interrupted by the elevator shaking, lights flickering and suddenly the red emergency lights turning on. Eden starts to panic again and this time even worse. Leo reminds her of thinking about childhood memories and that she should continue her story. She continues the story; this now takes a different direction. She explains that while she was playing hide and seek, she found the perfect hiding spot, but with that came a traumatic experience. This memory of Eden reveals, forgotten parts of the past and leading them to finding the one thing that they have been missing for the last 20 years.

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