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A woman takes her stroke-victim father
out of a geriatric hospital to go look for the site of a
family tragedy that happened over three decades before. By
the end of their journey, they not only experience but are
influential factors in a brushfire inferno and a Columbine-like
attack on migrant workers -- both part of an apocalypse of
hate, but which stand in sharp contrast to the woman's visceral
yet strangely pastoral memories of love and death in a secluded,
devoted family. In a story about contemporary semi-rural
survival and familial bonds beyond common topical standards,
a family secret reveals how random tragedy was allowed to
benumb idyllic family unity -- even debilitate the foundation
of a family's strength -- but ultimately it never destroyed
the potency and power the woman discovers in the bond that
remains.
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