Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: evening before he must supervise large concrete pour in Birmingham, Fact2: concrete pour in European history largest non-nuclear facility, Fact3: wife and sons are awaiting arrival home to watch important football match, Fact4: Locke decides to drive to London to be with Bethan during childbirth, Fact5: Bethan calls to share cooing of baby having had successful birth
Output (English): The evening before he must supervise a large concrete pour in Birmingham the largest nonnuclear facility concrete pour in European history, construction foreman Ivan Locke learns that Bethan, a colleague from a job in Croydon with whom he had a onenight stand seven months previously which resulted in her becoming pregnant, has gone into premature labour. Despite his job responsibilities and although his wife and sons are eagerly awaiting his arrival home to watch an important football match, Locke decides to drive to London to be with Bethan during childbirth. Locke never forgave his father for abandoning him as a child, and he is determined not to make the same mistake, even though he has no relationship with, nor any particular feelings for, Bethan. Over the course of the twohour drive from Birmingham to London, Locke holds a total of 36 phone calls with: his boss Gareth; his backup work colleague Donal; Katrina – his wife of 15 years – to confess his infidelity; his sons, Eddie and Sean, who call him separately with updates on the match and eventually the worrisome breakdown of their mother; St. Marys maternity unit medical personnel, Sister Margaret then Dr. Gullu, who are working with Bethan through some troubling complications; the council head, Cassidy, and local police authority, PC Davids, required for the road closures needed to allow the 225+ concrete trucks to properly access the site; and with Bethan to reassure her during her labour. During these calls, he is fired from his job, banned from his house by his wife, and asked by his older son to please return home. He coaches his assistant Donal through preparing the pour despite some major setbacks, and has imaginary conversations with his dead father, whom he envisions unseen onscreen as a passenger in the car; he berates his father for abandoning Lockes family, and vows he will not repeat that mistake. When he is close to the hospital, Bethan calls to share the cooing of the baby, having had a successful birth.