Crosswind

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Amanda decides to go to college in Indiana away from Phoenix and a mother she thinks is too protective and the tension between her divorced parents.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Susan Amanda's mother works to adjust to life without her daughter around while dealing with the disintegration of her family and her less than satisfactory job as a lawyer in a large law firm.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Amanda revels in the freedom of university life away from her over-protective mom while Susan feels adrift as her attempts to fill Amanda's absence with romance and ambition prove disappointing. When Amanda joins a religious commune drawn in by its seductive promise of certainty and love Susan fears she has lost Amanda to a cult.</span></p><p><br></p><p><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Crosswind </em><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>is a compelling weave of Amanda's and Susan's intertwined stories that show the appeal and danger of living in a closed community with a charismatic leader and the fraught relationship of a mother and daughter looking for a safe place to call home.</span></p><p><br></p>