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The story
The short version. Billionaire, 60 episodes on YourChannel. Lila Harrison spends her days gathering empty bottles, saving up for a birthday present for her father. At school the other children and their mothers treat her like trash, and one boy's father lectures his own child to stay away…
It opens outdoors: Lila shows her mother another bottle she has found, explaining that both her father's birthday and her own are coming soon, and she wants to make him a present. A classmate's mother overhears and tells the child to stay away from Lila from now on, sneering that she wears rags and picks up trash and no one knows what she might be carrying. Lila answers for herself: "Mom said being poor is not shameful. Mom and dad work so hard." Her mother stands behind her: "Lila Harrison is helping you share the burden." Then a man named Christian Harrison appears, and the adults stop the little girl from looking.
Episode eight brings the fight home. After a scuffle at school, Lila's mother tells her not to care where the money came from and to apologize to the teacher and her classmates. Lila answers that she did nothing wrong, that it was Jasper Ashford who bullied her. The adults take Jasper's side and accuse Lila of stealing, and her father repeats the demand that she apologize. Lila asks the question no one answers: "Dad, why do you only believe what Jasper Ashford said? You just don't believe me. Do you really not want me anymore?"
Episode five moves to the schoolyard. The children crowd around Lila and the boy Jasper Ashford, who holds the spot she saved for her father. They tell her she has no father, that her father has never once attended a parent meeting or picked her up from school, and that she goes through the trash after class every day. Lila refuses to back down: "I'm really not lying. My dad promised me he will definitely come back." The other children call on everyone to testify against her, and the laughter turns the courtyard against the little girl.
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