First, theRecap:
The power to function. While there may be so many varying situations that this might be applied to, it would seem safe to say that our individual capabilities and the means by which we find ourselves utilizing them each day would be at the forefront. As people, we are richly blessed to have the wide ranging scope of what we can accomplish…physically and mentally…that aid in everything we desire to strive for and, ideally, accomplish. However, what if someone was experiencing daily life with these elements….only in a more muted manner?
In a Florida home, during an especially hot season, a 38-year old Korean adoptee named Anna (Anna Sargent) makes every effort to exist with the cognitive disabilities that she has. With her sister Emily (Jeena Yi) working in NYC, Anna’s restricted means while trying to take care of her aging mother (Joan Sargent) takes a sudden and unforeseen turn. Even once Emily is back home, the estranged pair find themselves at odds, one watching life become more complicated than planned, while the other simply wishes to maintain and create a world SHE can recognize and thrive in.
Next, myMind:
There is a sad fact in this upended world that is highly difficult, or SHOULD BE such, to swallow….the misconceptions and, sadly, maltreatment of those who have the unfortunate reality of disabilities to cope and survive with. While life moves forward via what most of us consider “routine”, there are those whose comprehension of, and capacity to carry out, some basic resemblance of life is challenged to utterly crippling degrees. YET, carry forward they do, with an intelligence, fortitude, grace, and unwavering amount of intent that honestly belies what ailments, mental or physical, are trying to (granted sometimes successfully) hold them back from experiencing everything to the maximum amount of personal and grander scope of daily existence. In spite of it, they are HUMAN BEINGS, worthy of just as much love, compassion, care, and understanding any of us are, REGARDLESS of those elements that set them apart from “normalcy”.
Anna, a 38-year-old Korean adoptee with a cognitive disability, cares for her aging parents in a fragile balance of meeting each others’ needs. When a Florida heat wave shatters their family and Anna’s routine, her future is uncertain - until she creates a world where she can thrive.
Liz Sargent
Director
Liz Sargent
Director
Anna Sargent
Anna
Ali Ahn
Emily
Victor Slezak
Bob
Marceline Hugot
Joan
Shane Harper
James
April Matthis
Geraldine
Shannon DeVido
Sophie
Eric Diaz
College Dude 1
Steve Way
Anna's Brunch Friend
Naida Nelson
Receptionist
Nikki Christie
Cashier 1
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