ASHLAND AND VINE

It is 1999. Kate Lambert, a grieving, semi-alcoholic film student, invites an elderly woman to take part in an oral-history document ary. The woman, Jean Culver, declines, but makes her a bizarre counter-offer: if Kate can stay sober for four days, she will tell he r a story. And if she can stay sober beyond that, there will be another, and then another, amounting to the entire history of one fa milys life. Though still shattered by the death of her father, and by the desultory abuse imposed by Laurits, her enigmatic collabo rator and...[Read more]