A Fool Rides the Wheel of Fortune

May Day 1970... Annabelle nineteen and disheartened with her coal-town prospects meets Walt who runs a game in a traveling carnival and wins a date with her after the show closes. Wandering McCains Magic Midway she enters a sideshow where a three-armed man reads her Tarot cards. Their mysterious images echo her reality. Later at a bar in town Walt boasts of life on the road and Annabelle confesses her yen to be elsewhere. She takes a shot at adventure and romance goes to his hotel room and the next night rolls out of town with Walt and the show --- joining a bizarre troupe of characters who embody aspects of the archetypal Trumps in the Tarots Major Arcana. Annabelle narrates her tale of one week among the strange society of a West Virginia carnival whereupon her love for Walt takes wing amid blind lust yet soon flutters in and out of her confused heart.