At the threshold of an ancient Persian courtyard just before blue dawn — the lean weathered dervish (40, deep Persian features, grey-touched black beard, undyed wool khirqa, ivory undershirt, bare feet…)Extreme close-up — the same lean weathered dervish (deep Persian features, close-cropped beard, undyed wool khirqa) in profile, tears streaming freely down both cheeks like two rivers in full flood…Sweeping wide shot from above — a white flash-flood of foaming water tears through a narrow rocky Persian gorge lined with ancient stone, willows bending to the torrent…Low-angle shot from the heaving sea surface — a wooden ship tears apart plank by plank in a vast crimson-and-silver sea at dusk, enormous waves crashing against the hull; the dervish (lean, Persian features…)Dramatic wide shot at night — on the surface of an impossibly vast, moonlit Persian sea, the dervish (lean, dark-bearded, in salt-crusted undyed khirqa, bare feet on a single floating timber plank…)A vertiginous overhead shot — the vast dry hāmoun plain splits open in a blinding crack of white light, the fissure zigzagging across cracked earth like lightning; the leviathan is half-swallowed by the split earth…A wide ethereal shot — infinite space, neither ocean nor plain, only soft white radiance in every direction, the horizon dissolved; the dervish (lean, 40, Persian features, grey-touched beard, undyed wool khirqa…)The dervish (lean, weathered Persian face, close-cropped beard, undyed wool khirqa now dry and still, bare feet) floats face-up on the surface of a perfectly calm dawn sea, arms gently open, eyes wide and luminous…
