What do you think of this synopsis for a 5 minute short film for media a-level?

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If you can add another character in, maybe she has a ten-year-old sister who appears in the scene on the playground. The audience can speculate that the sister might be a reason for Amy to live, to nurture her.
 
If you can add another character in, maybe she has a ten-year-old sister who appears in the scene on the playground. The audience can speculate that the sister might be a reason for Amy to live, to nurture her.
 
If you can add another character in, maybe she has a ten-year-old sister who appears in the scene on the playground. The audience can speculate that the sister might be a reason for Amy to live, to nurture her.
 
If you can add another character in, maybe she has a ten-year-old sister who appears in the scene on the playground. The audience can speculate that the sister might be a reason for Amy to live, to nurture her.
 
If you can add another character in, maybe she has a ten-year-old sister who appears in the scene on the playground. The audience can speculate that the sister might be a reason for Amy to live, to nurture her.
 
If you can add another character in, maybe she has a ten-year-old sister who appears in the scene on the playground. The audience can speculate that the sister might be a reason for Amy to live, to nurture her.
 
Here is my synopsis. I have to produce this film in 5 minutes and I don't have much time to film it! I would really appreciate any feedback or any thoughts about what is good/bad! All suggestions welcome!!
Synopsis:
Amy a low self esteem 17 year old is debating whether or not to take her own life. It cuts to a scene of Amy deciding which of the colour pills would do the job the quickest. But before she goes through with it she is overcome with flashbacks of her life, the good and the bad. But will these flashbacks persuade her to still go through with it or change her mind.



Amy is sitting alone in playground swinging to the beat of her heartbeat holding the colourful pills in her hand; the dusk is slowly creeping on as she gets her first flashback. She remembers the pain of when she was 10 years old, bruised and crying sitting on the same swing set, her only escape from her abusive home life. Memories flood back to when she was younger and her dad died in a car accident when she was 7. A flashback shows Amy standing at the foot of her father’s gravestone. Coming back to reality she cringes at the pain of her past and looks at the desirable way of escape by taking one pill. She’s overcome by a series of flashbacks, eating her lunch alone in the toilets, being laughed at by other children, teachers labelling her as a failure. With all these bad memories coming back to Amy she is certain that her only way of peace and relief is to go through with ending her life, she lifts the pills up to her mouth, just as she is about to put them in, she is hit with her final reminder of her past, her dad hugging her when she came home from school one day. Flooded with emotions, the pills fall from her hand.

We are aiming to make the ending fairly ambiguous, with the audience not knowing what happened to Amy.
 
If you can add another character in, maybe she has a ten-year-old sister who appears in the scene on the playground. The audience can speculate that the sister might be a reason for Amy to live, to nurture her.
 
If you can add another character in, maybe she has a ten-year-old sister who appears in the scene on the playground. The audience can speculate that the sister might be a reason for Amy to live, to nurture her.
 
If you can add another character in, maybe she has a ten-year-old sister who appears in the scene on the playground. The audience can speculate that the sister might be a reason for Amy to live, to nurture her.
 
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