Scene One
Friday, May 30th, 1980
a large house in the country

After returning from a high school Prom, a pair of best friends go on a ride to see how fast they can go down an empty country road at 3:00 a.m. Disastrously intoxicated on alcohol, they end up drifting off of the road at nearly 100 mph.  They hit a tree and are both instantly killed; neither one was wearing a seat belt. 

Vivid portrayals of the shock and horror experienced by their girlfriends is an important element of this segment.

The police are baffled due to the lack of skid marks on the roadway leading towards the tree.  It is mistakenly determined that the crash was intentional and therefore a suicide - related incident.

Although suicide was not the case whatsoever in reality, the girlfriends and families of the two dead high school seniors are left thinking that their friends and sons have purposely killed themselves in a horrid, bizarre way.  The icing on the cake is that the pair were only two weeks away from graduating, and their deaths make even less sense due to the wonderful lives that should have been ahead of them after completing high school. 

A brief funeral scene or a few shots at the graveside service would be possibilities.

Sadly enough, all of the above is in fact not an imagined fictional situation: it is based on events that unfolded in May of 1980 in Augusta County. 

The inspiration was the tragic death of two students from Wilson Memorial High School who perished in a confounding automobile crash during the hours following The Prom of 1980.

Scene Two
Friday, June 17th, 1983
middle class suburb

Two girls and their boyfriends are having a long weekend party at the house of one of the girls.  The parents are out of town and they are each on a different set of drugs. 

Girl A is high on marijuana.  Girl B is on marijuana and NMDA (Ecstasy), tripped out on what was then still a legal over - the - counter pill. 

Guy A is drunk and Guy B is drunk as well as high on marijuana.  Girl A falls down a set of stairs in the house and lands on a shattered glass, cutting herself terribly.  She is unconscious and subsequently bleeds a large amount before Girl B finds her. 

Girl B is too tripped out to properly respond and finds herself engrossed in staring at the surreal scene. Thinking that she is perhaps hallucinating, she spends almost two minutes examining Girl A without realizing the need to call for help.  Guy A and B then arrive at the stairwell and begin to scream in horror, not knowing if Girl A has had an accident or if Girl B has committed some twisted crime in her state of mind. 

Guy A immediately tries to call for help but finds that the phone is not working because Girl A had left a phone off of the hook in her bedroom.  Precious minutes pass as Guy B attempts to stop the profuse bleeding of Girl A. 

Girl B becomes hysterical at the realization that she wasted valuable time and runs out of the house and into the street screaming for help.

Neighbors quickly come to help and are horrified at the situation.  A neighbor calls the hospital and in several minutes an ambulance arrives.  The stairwell is by then terribly bloody and the entire scene is very grotesque. 

Girl B collapses into a crying mess in the street and the situation ends with a large collection of neighbors watching the appalling scene unfold.

The police may become involved due to the drug use and underage drinking, but Guy A is related to the town's chief of police and therefore efforts are made to cover up the illegalities of the incident for the sake of the absent parents.

Scene Three
November 10th, 1985
College Campus Dormitory

This scene would be less visually dramatic than the first two to provide a period in which the viewer could have a few minutes to process what they have seen thus far. 

In this particular scene, the failure of personal morals would be demonstrated through the showing of an emotional conversation between two college students.

Girl A has become obsessed with the social scene on campus and has abandoned extracurricular campus activities and classes for pursuing her obsession with achieving popularity. 

The values that she had in high school have failed out and she has become shockingly promiscuous. 

Girl B, a long time friend of Girl A, is horrified when she discovers her friend's slide into apathy and bizarre / unsafe behaviors. 

Girl B is a weekend drinker and nothing more, and she cannot comprehend why Girl A has slipped into using several different drugs with an alarming frequency.  Girl A reacts terribly to the questioning, and informs her friend that she will eventually be much more materially successful because she has been targeting the "rich and powerful guys on campus" as her sex partners. 

Girl B is devoted to success through diligence in her classes, and to hear her former best friend claim that promiscuity is the way to success is simply revolting. 

Girl B descends into hysterical tears during the conversation and ends up running off in horror, unable to face the twisted person that Girl A has become during her first two years at college. 

Girl A reacts very badly to her friend's criticisms.  She rushes off to a party and drowns herself in alcohol for several hours.  In the early hours of the morning someone suggests she try a “Marlyn Monroe”, which is to combine liquor with prescription painkillers. 

Girl A quickly agrees and consumes several more drinks with several pills.  Within an hour she is passed out and her “friend” proceeds to rape her and then leave her to sleep off the state that she is in. 

Girl A has unintentionally overdosed and simply dies in her sleep.  In the morning, Girl B goes to the dorm room of Girl A and sees that Girl A is still in bed, under a mess of blankets. 

Not realizing that Girl A died in the early hours of the morning, Girl B goes over and tries to wake up Girl A.  Girl B then pulls down the covers to expose a very dead and cold body. 

Girl B freaks out completely and goes running into the dormitory hallways, screaming for help. She is so hysterical that when the ambulances arrive, they not only take the body of Girl A but also take Girl B to the hospital to be dealt with.

The setting is the interior of a large contemporary house, with the focus upon a disconnected housewife who spends her days ordering her housekeeper around and occasionally going on shopping sprees at malls and via mail-order catalogs. 

She is on the phone with an unhelpful sales representative, causing stress over an out of stock sweater she wants to purchase. 

Her stock broker telephones in on line two while she is having her rude conversation and informs her that the stock market has crashed and her husband's portfolio is in ruins. 

The woman panics due to her addiction to money and immediately turns to her other addiction: cocaine.  She is a long term addict and has reached the point of needing to inject a liquid solution of cocaine to attain her desired and normal high. 

The woman is too shocked over the market ruining her and mistakenly loads the syringe with far too much of the drug. 

After injecting herself in the arm, she collapses on the kitchen floor in a state near cardiac arrest.  Her pulse skyrockets and she passes out. 

The housekeeper, a woman who normally hates her employer, finds the unconscious woman several minutes later, and calls the paramedics.  The wealthy junkie is rushed to the hospital and her husband comes to find her in a coma.  The scene ends with the desperate husband in tears as he holds the hand of his unresponsive wife.

This segment is a true-to-life account of the fanatical addiction many people had to the stock market and the boom leading up to the crash of 1987. 

Things in some parts of America went quite haywire during those tense days, and in Florida a man who's life was ruined by the crash actually walked into the office of his stock broker and proceeded to gun down the helpless broker before turning the gun upon himself.  

It was a disastrous symbol of what lengths people can be driven to by money and the evaporation of over 500 Billion dollars as happened during those days in 1987.