A HEALING DEATH
2011

Based on a True Story

When Melisa, 23, learns her much-loved Grandpa is dying, she readily agrees to stay at her aunt's house to help nurse him. She used to visit her aunt regularly as a child, to play with her cousin Sarah, and often stayed overnight. Her visits were abruptly stopped 11 years before because of what her father refers to as 'the situation'. Melisa has never been told the nature of 'the situation' and it remains a taboo subject.

Although the journey to her aunt's is familiar, from all her visits as a child, when Melisa arrives she finds she can't remember any of the house; her mind has completely blanked it out. Then she starts to experience strange and disturbing flashbacks - distressing images of her as a child. Melisa learns that the housekeeper was dismissed at the same time as her own visits stopped, and she becomes convinced the two are linked.

Against a backdrop of nursing her dying Grandpa, Melisa starts to delve beneath the surface of her respectable family to try and find out what happened 11 years ago, and why she is being haunted by images from her past. What she discovers, the night before Grandpa's death, is so shocking that she understands why it has never been spoken of, and why it lay buried in her sub-conscious for all those years.