Description
NUMBER OF PAGES: 10
CAST: 4 women, 2 girls, 1 boy
GENRE: drama
SYNOPSIS: A delicate venture into the deepest corners of a fifteen-year-old girl’s soul. Emma is in a painful relationship with her parents. Her mother is sick and her father has left the family, for which Emma cannot forgive him. She accuses him of having caused her mother’s disease. Emma spends her time at school and with her father in Australia, where she meets her step-sister, Whitney. But most of her time is spent with her mum. She is grateful for each time her mum smiles, she cherishes every happy moment together. Emma is aware that her mother‘s illness is getting worse. The day comes when she has to be placed in a mental hospital and this has a great impact on Emma, who feels devastated. She feels lost at school, lost at home with her grandmother, lost when visiting her mum at the hospital. Finally, when Emma’s mum chooses suicide, Emma collapses. She refuses to eat, she is completely apathetic, and she ignores the therapeutist. It is the relentless persistence of her grandma that pulls her up on her feet again. Emma begins to seek the meaning of life and with the help of her grandma, she gradually reaches her goal.
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