The woman looks around while brushing her fingers through her hair. The footsteps fade away on the first floor. The door closes and locks and the water from the shower turns on. The woman stands up from the bed and walks back to the door and gently opens it before running to the study again. She walks back outside and looks over the edge of the balcony, inspecting the area below the balcony. All she can see is a closed door right next to the iron stairway and a window all the way on the left side of the facade of the house. She moves closer to the edge of the balcony and pushes herself over the edge whilst turning around. She pushes herself over the edge and searches for the first step on the stairway with her left feet. It’s wet and slippery and feels very uncomfortable, but she’s nowhere near stopping now. Her right feet is searching the next step and she slowly but steady starts climbing down the stairs. She stops to check if she can look inside the glass door on the ground floor, but curtains and newspapers cover the full door. She quickly looks down to realize the lower half of the steps on the stairs are missing, she has to make a decision, go back upstairs and find another way down, or let herself fall on the grass in hope no one will hear her.

The decision was made quickly and she stands up after making a pretty nasty fall on the grass. She looks around her, but not a sound was to be heard. She then turns around and runs towards the end of the garden, towards the wooden shed in the distance, towards her freedom. After a minute of constant running, she reaches the wooden shed. She slows down as she sees light inside the shed, she’s afraid and stops running for a second. She slowly walks towards the left side of the shed and takes a peek through the window. There’s a working station with saws, a hammer and drill on top of it. She suddenly hears a noise from behind, from the house. She scarily looks behind her, to see the old woman opening the backdoor into the garden. She quickly hides next to the shed by lying down on the muddy floor next to it. The older woman takes a seat on the chair next to the door and lights a cigarette. It is impossible for her to move now, she’s sure the older woman will notice her, so she keeps quiet and thinks of a plan on how to escape.

Minutes pass by and the woman stands up from her chair and heads back inside and closes the door behind her. The woman stands up from the muddy floor and looks down to her once white dress. It’s all wet and now also covered with a muddy texture. She is disgusted, but turns around and runs towards the little creek. She quickly reaches the water and throws herself into the cold water. She quickly washes her hair with the clear water and sees the dirt slowly fading off of her dress. She walks towards the end of the creek and climbs on land. She’s shivering, clearly on the edge of getting hypothermia, but there’s no way she stops now. She wants her freedom back, to save her family and relatives from those men in the forest, she has to, she needs to. She looks around to find out where she’ll run towards next. The big open field in front of her is surrounded by a fence with electric wire. She moves closer to the fence and allows herself to drop onto the grass in front of the fence and rolls under the electric fence.

She takes one more look behind her to see if someone’s following her or has spotted her so far, but there’s no one to be seen. She starts running again, without destination. Her only concern is to get back to the forest, the deep dark forest she escaped from. She doesn’t want to return, but has to save her people, and since the police are no help, she has to do it on her own. In the far distance she spots a farm and decides to run towards it, in hope to get help from someone over there. After a couple of minutes switching between running and walking, she reaches a road. She stops for a second to look around. The run appears in the sky. She takes a moment to breathe, to make up a plan in her head about what to do next. But first, she’ll enjoy the warm rays of sun on her face and soaking body.