Light In Dark Places

2018, 10 minutes

A mother makes a shocking discovery when she's left to pack up her daughter's house after a tragic car accident.

In the beginning, we wander through a house in the middle of being packed up. The voice over of our protagonist, Rhine, recites a poem that leads the audience through her relationship, their breakup, and her untimely death. In the middle, we end our wandering journey at the last room — the office. We find a stoic, older woman sitting at a desk going through photos on a laptop. This is Gail, Rhine’s mother. It is here, in this space, that she learns that her daughter was in a relationship with a woman. Finally, we find ourselves in an empty church. It’s the end of Rhine’s wake and Joss is crying, not rivers, but lakes. In walks Gail. She sits next to Joss who tries to pull it together. The two share a moment. In that moment Gail must decide to either embrace her daughter’s truth or bury not only her daughter but the fact that she was a lesbian.

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