Duration: 15 seconds.
Extreme macro tracking shot. The camera is welded to a single hundred dollar bill and travels with it for the entire shot — the bill fills the lower half of frame at all times, inches from the lens, never leaving. It is clearly a US one hundred dollar bill: large numeral 100 in the corners, Benjamin Franklin's engraved portrait centered, blue-green security ribbon running vertical, gold 100 on the right side, pale green and cream paper. The denomination stays readable in every frame. Continuous unbroken take, no cuts. Wide-angle proximity distortion.
0-4s: An adult customer's hand slides the hundred flat across a bodega counter under hard fluorescent light and lets go. The clerk's hand grabs it, pinching the edge, and lifts it — the ceiling swings past overhead.
4-7s: The clerk's hand drops the hundred into a metal register drawer, laying it flat. The drawer slams shut — total darkness, the numeral 100 catching a thin seam of light — then rolls open, fluorescent light flooding back across Franklin's face. The clerk's hand grabs it back out and holds it forward.
7-9s: An adult man in a hoodie grabs the hundred from the clerk's fingers and slides it into his hoodie pocket — brief darkness, fabric pressed against the paper.
9-12s: Pulled back out into blue evening street light, then into warm tungsten and cool teal practicals. His hand slides the hundred flat across a dark wood bar top, stopping it beside a full cocktail glass with condensation running down, ceiling lights blooming overhead, and releases.
12-15s: An adult woman bartender's hand grabs the hundred, pinching it by the edge, and lifts it toward her. Her face leans into frame above it, lit warm, and holds.
Cinematic 35mm grain, deep controlled shadows, no flat lighting. 9:16 vertical.
[Audio: fluorescent hum, metal drawer slam and roll, muffled street ambience, open bar room tone. Paper handling close and dry. Glass settling on wood. No music bed.]