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two years ago
after Rachel failed to get pregnant and started drinking, her husband divorced her and she was falling into a deep hole. She moved out from their house next to the train track to her friend Cathy. -
this year
even after two years she isn't over the break up between her and Tom. She keeps bothering his new little family (with wife and daughter), by sending e-mails, calling in the middle of the night and walking around their house. -
beginning
Every morning Rachel is taking the same train from her place into London. Every morning, she sees a couple which is living in the house next to the train tracks, sitting on the terrace and enjoying the morning sun. Because the train is stopping at a signal to let another train pass, she has a perfect view of them. it ends up that she's giving them names, Jess and Jason, and is making a perfect life story up. she wants to pretend someone out there has a perfect life, because she's far from that. -
treatmill
A Rachel lost her job, she's still pretending to get to work every morning. and one day, she sees the unpredictable. Her golden couple, Jess is kissing another man. rachel gets flabbergasted, cannot believe what she just saw. -
Pretend
Rachel has lost her job. But still, she is taking the same train every morning, pretend to go to work. She doesn't want to bother her flatmate Cathy anymore. It has been a hard time for both of them, because of Rachel's drinking progress. -
Saturday, the day Megan went missing
Two days later Rachel is reading in the newspaper, that her Jess, actually named Megan went missing two days ago. Rachel knows something no one other knows about, the kiss.
As she was many times before, she was in Witney last Saturday night, the day Megan went missing. But as it is, she doesn't remember any of it. As she's getting home, the police are waiting for her. Someone saw her in Witney that night, she was being suspicious. She has to answer few questions. -
Scott
rachel wants to tell the police, what she has actually seen, the kiss, maybe it could help. Then, as she finished telling her knowledge and wants to get out of there, she sees Scott, her Jason. he looks weak but still powerful at the same time. she decides to get home and write him a message, telling she's a friend of Megan's, from her little gallery. then he answers and they get in touch. -
Kamal Abdic
Rachel visits Megan's psychiatrist behind Scott's back. she's talking about her life, her drinking, but at the same time, she is there to find something out about him, maybe.