INSPIRED BY THE FSA PHOTOGRAPHY PROGRAM (1935 TO 1944). ALL CHARACTERS AND EVENTS DEPICTED ARE FICTIONAL. ANY RESEMBLANCE TO REAL PERSONS LIVING OR DEAD IS COINCIDENTAL. NOTE: THIS SCREENPLAY IS INTENDED TO BE SHOT IN BLACK AND WHITE. FADE IN: INT. BAKERSFIELD HOTEL ROOM, BATHROOM, 4:14 AM A single red bulb suspended over a white enamel sink. In the sink, a developing tray. The smell of fixer and acetic acid. No window. No sound except a dripping tap. MARGARET HAYES (36) works in the red light. She is in a man's undershirt and khaki trousers, bare feet, hair loose. She moves a photographic print through the developer with a pair of rubber tongs. The deliberateness of someone doing a precise thing they have done a thousand times. The print sharpens. A woman at the edge of a pea-pickers' camp. Three children around her. The woman is looking at the camera with an expression that is not a smile and is not unfriendly and is not anything the viewer can name exactly. Her hands are in her lap. Behind her a canvas tent and two sagging wire lines of laundry. No man. Margaret lifts the print out of the tray. She clips it to a line above the sink to dry. She turns the tap until the dripping stops. She goes into the room. INT. BAKERSFIELD HOTEL ROOM, CONTINUOUS 1