The synopsis for The Meeting.

The meeting, the synopsis.

This short film features a young woman “Emma” a fairly plain looking woman who is 25 years old. Emma is currently in a mental health institution due to severe depression and suicidal tendencies brought on by a traumatised childhood where her father regularly beat and sexually abused her. She has only been in the institution one week so far and has just received news from her social worker that her father has committed suicide. Emma is furious that she never got the chance to confront her father.

After receiving the news Emma lays in bed praying that she had just one more chance to speak with him to ask him the questions she never had the opportunity to ask.

After falling asleep she “awakes” to find herself in limbo, with her father standing before her, shocked but unafraid she stares her abuser in the face, her father still looks the same in death as he did in life, with his grey hair, stocky build and still wearing the same look of contempt for her that he always did.

She finds the courage to start her inquisition of her father with the intention of some resolution, possibly even closure. This is a film about relationships, love and resolution, looking at the human psyche in a painful and emotional way, it is set mainly in the one room as this is a character based film and doesn’t require too many effects to get the point across. This is a touching subject for many people and as we follow Emma’s journey, and ordeal we hope for her that she will get the closure she needs to feel “normal” again. This is a once in a life time opportunity to confront her abuser, how many people out there would relish that chance to confront someone they once knew who has since passed on?  

313 words again...not sure why this has happened.....