Concept art for the live-action-CGI family film Island Blue

‘The flashing blue lights of a stationary police car beyond a bend. Valentine looks back, looks forward, then to the left into the dark forest. He chooses the forest.’

” ‘Stop!’ shouts Valentine. He is in a car with mum, on a rainy evening. Something is caught in the headlights. Is it a dog?”

‘Tobby pricks up his ears, looks at Valentine and scurries off. His purr sounds strangely articulated.’

‘If he cannot go and see Mum every day he might not remember her that well when she gets well and comes home again.’

‘Valentine looks so little and forlorn, sitting at the large dining table ( . . . ) . Far across the table sits Lavinia, his aunt, a stark, humourless spinster, nitpicking on anything that moves.’

Drawings: Jenő Udvardi
Text: Csaba Farkas