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Daisy is a typical 17-year-old girl, happy, bouncy, determined and full of life. Like every other teenager, she has ambitions, plans and hopes. One day, she knows that she will fall in love, have her first proper kiss, have a make-over, own her own pet puppy, dare to skinny dip, have a wild slumber party with her friends...all of the dreams of a girl who lives life to the full and whose imagination, warmth of spirit and gutsiness will make her dreams come true.
Daisy carries out each of these activities, such as falling in love and and going to the beach. This always shows her strength and growth of relationship with her best friend Elli, who becomes Daisy's companion.
However, the audience does not know one key fact: that Daisy has recently been diagnosed with cancer and informed that she only has limited time to live. Daisy challenges the cancer and starts her own personal scrapbook, filled with little things she hopes to achieve before she enters hospital for good.
As Daisy fulfils each of her dreams, turning the pages of her bucket list scrapbook, so the pages turn and the days in her life draw towards a close, making the finishing of the scrapbook a metaphor symbolising the drawing of her life towards its end.
It is only in the final moments of the film that earlier hints and intimations of the seriousness of her fatal condition make sense to the audience who realises suddenly that for Daisy, time is running out.
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