- Every mother fights to protect her child. But is there such a thing as going too far?
- Mary Hubbard is on the run. A 30-something young mother, she drives her hastily-packed car through the night to put as much distance between her and whatever she is running from. She takes refuge in a seedy run-down cottage court, a relic of another era, hoping to leave her troubles behind. But it is a useless endeavor, because her troubles travel with her.
Mary is haunted by visions of the past - visions of personal intimate horrors involving sexual abuse. Some of these go back to her childhood, others to only one day earlier, involving her own little daughter, Jill.
And that is why she is on the run. Even with her daughter safely hidden away, her troubles have followed her. Her husband tracks her down, searching for his daughter, and when he confronts Mary he shows signs of a violent temper that threatens to get out of control. Only the intervention of a neighbor, a young man named Milo, who lives just across the way from Mary and has taken an interest in her, keeps this from happening.
But most tellingly, there are the visions - as her past continues to intrude into her present day world, so much so that she can not always tell what is real and what is not. And more to the point, it raises the question of how much of remembered abuse was real, or imagined.
In her mind, Mary just wants to escape, but Milos interest in her motivates him to keep probing, looking for answers. He finally gets them, but the revelations prove to be too much for Mary to handle. If she cannot obliterate them from her mind then she must obliterate everything else around her. And in the end, this is what she does.
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