Everyone's Child

<p></p><p><strong>HER MOTHER SAID SHE WOULD BE RIGHT BACK...</strong></p><p></p><p>A little girl sits on a bench near Lake Ontario waiting for her mother to return.</p><p></p><p>She doesn't.</p><p></p><p>A teenage boy rescues her from an inquisitive stranger and offers to take her home.</p><p></p><p>When they arrive the house is in darkness. No sign of her mother.</p><p></p><p>He takes her to the place he shares with his elderly foster parents.</p><p></p><p>His foster parents friends of the local police sergeant report the incident to him.</p><p></p><p>An investigation of the child's home reveals a body. Not the child's mother.</p><p></p><p>Across the street a nosy neighbour is watching. Perhaps she saw something?</p><p></p><p>As the investigation unfolds nothing stays buried. Not the secrets in the walls. Nor the child's terrifying nightmares. Nor the connection to the neighbour across the street.</p><p></p><p>What was seen? Who was seen? And who is hiding pertinent information?</p><p></p><p>A chilling portrait of obsessive lies and more lies deeply rooted trauma disguised memories and the darkness that festers behind closed doors.</p><p></p><p> </p><p></p>