Opening Sequence Idea 1 - Identity

My first film idea is a drama. The opening sequence starts with a young girl in the middle of the woods. The setting is atmospheric and windy. She is digging with a spade, kneeling and burying a wooden box into the hole and covering it with soil.

(like this but costume etc would be more accurate to the story etc.)

Her young hands dissolve into older hands and she removes the soil and uncovers the box. The older lady takes out the box and hands it to a man standing in front of her. She says ‘open it’ and the title of the film displays. 

The rest of the narrative is about a young refugee who has fled her home. The film would be about her life in a new country, and how she changes her identity to start a new life. After time, her past catches up with her and she has to return to the woods to recover the box to prove who she really is. She has a motive to prove her true identity. She goes on a revealing trip back to France by train. The first time she has been back since she was young to try and find this box.