Ever felt your life was at a crossroads, you felt confused, wondering if you had made some wrong choices, perhaps one irreparable one? Meet 48-year-old Ellie Calvin, an artist, mother to college age daughter, Lil, and married to Rusty. They’ve been married for 20 years and that union is dissolving around her.
She tells us, “Standing in a white dress in front of family and friends, vowing to love forever the handsome man in front of me, is on the top of my wonderful list. Then years later, standing in the receiving line at my mother’s funeral and pulling away from that same man’s touch because I knew I didn’t - couldn’t - love him anymore is more than awful. It’s tragic.”
She is surprised to see her former boyfriend, Hutch, at the funeral. He is involved in a documentary concerning her mother, Lillian, a woman who was little known to Ellie. He asks for Ellie’s help in finishing this, and she agrees although she’s a bit disturbed by feelings that began to surface when she saw him again.
She’s surprised to learn that Lillian had been a part of the civil rights movement in Alabama in the 60's. She is even more surprised to find a hidden diary that reveals a great deal about Lillian. After reading a portion of it she decides to go to the Alabama coast, to a beach house owned by her mother’s best friend, Birdie, and try to discover what really happened one summer in 1961.
Once there Hutch arrives to help her with the research. The question for both of them is can they work together without reviving what both believed was a lost love?
- Gail Cooke
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