**A HAUNTING LULLABY plays against a black, star-pricked
      sky when something appears in the distance. A BUTTON-EYED
      DOLL floats towards CAMERA, through the open window of a
      small sewing room where it lands in a pair of WAITING
      HANDS, hands that are made of SEWING NEEDLES.

      
      The doll - which resembles a YOUNG BLACK GIRL in old-
      fashioned clothes, hair fixed with ribbons and braids -
      is placed on a sewing table. An elaborate sewing kit is
      opened, and, in flickering green light, the NEEDLE-HANDS
      go to work. The doll's old clothes are cut away; button-
      eyes torn off; hair pulled out. The doll's stuffing is
      removed and then the empty cloth body is pulled inside
      out, turning from NUT BROWN to PALE PINK.

      
      Sawdust is poured in the NEW DOLL's mouth; facial
      features added; blue yarn hair punched in; and then a
      fresh pair of shiny black button eyes is selected from a
      button drawer.

     
      The transformed doll, in a LITTLE YELLOW RAINCOAT, its
     new button eyes affixed, is released out the window**