In the course of a weekend’s reunion between two estranged women, a deeply buried and painful memory comes crashing into the present. This is the story of two ‘best friends’: a bright and popular beauty who married her highschool sweetheart and became a farm wife; and a sensitive ugly-duckling who fled her alcoholic mother and recreated herself to become a glamorous opera diva. In adulthood, each woman has woven a seemingly perfect life for herself – but lurking beneath the surface is a darkness which causes both to suffer in silence and loneliness. Only together are they able to piece together the fragmented memories of a horrifying event that separated them as children and kept them apart for almost thirty years.
In the course of a weekend’s reunion between two estranged women, a deeply buried and painful memory comes crashing into the present. This is the story of two ‘best friends’: a bright and popular beauty who married her highschool sweetheart and became a farm wife; and a sensitive ugly-duckling who fled her alcoholic mother and recreated herself to become a glamorous opera diva. In adulthood, each woman has woven a seemingly perfect life for herself – but lurking beneath the surface is a darkness which causes both to suffer in silence and loneliness. Only together are they able to piece together the fragmented memories of a horrifying event that separated them as children and kept them apart for almost thirty years.
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