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Three sisters lives intersect following the death of their mother and they try to lay the ghosts of their pasts to rest, but will they?
Character DrivenDrug/Alcohol AbusePsychological
Time Period: PresentSpecial Effects: No SFXTarget Audience: AdultIt opens with a young girl happily coming home from school to find that her mother has been badly beaten , almost to the point of death.
Fast forward to approximately 30 years later and this same girl, (now a woman), finds out that her mother has died. She needs to inform her two sisters but first she gets hold of a private detective who has been keeping tabs on the man who beat her mother since he was released from jail.
All of the sisters return to their hometown in order to organize their mother's funeral. Through a series of flashbacks it is revealed that the sisters were also molested by the same man who hurt their mother, and they make a pact to charge the man who molested them after their mother dies.
Through the days leading up to the funeral, all three deal with the death of their mother and the molestation in different ways. The oldest, Melinda, is in denial and never admits to being abused. The middle sister, Paula, is bent on revenge and just wants to see the man charged. The youngest, Willow, has turned to alcohol and tries to just keep up with her battling sisters.
The crux of the story is showing what happens, or what can happen to a family once the abuser is removed from the situation and how it can affect them on a long term basis. Once their mother dies, Paula forces them all to try to come to terms with their pasts.
Willow meets an old friend and through his help and her sister Paula, she turns her life around.
Paula gets the revenge she was looking for, but we are left with the question of what's next.
Melinda never admits and never comes to terms with what happens and so she is stuck in the life she has created.
Walking Though Wednesday - Wednesday's child is full of woe; Thursday's child has far to go. Which sisters will "Walk Through Wednesday".
Posted May 28, 2013, 3:34 pm by Donna Coulstring
Thanks for letting me know about the it's thing. I used Final Draft proofreader and it kept saying that every its was a mistake and would only accept it's and so that is what I used. I figured it was an American thing like how Canada spells colour and Americans spell color. Was this a review or just wanted to comment?
Posted May 26, 2013, 10:34 am by Clint Robertson
Hello. Rewrite this in active voice without forms of the verb 'to be,' such as 'is,' are,' and 'was.'
Also, please define for yourself and properly employ the difference between the plural possessive of 'it' which is 'its,' and the contraction of the words 'it' and 'is,' which is 'it's.'