Heartless

When Roscoe a 65-year-old Cervantes scholar runs off with a young woman named Sally he decides to stay a while in her family home. Soon he discovers that Sallys houseonce inhabited by James Dean; perched precariously over the San Fernando valleyis filled with secrets sadness and haunted women who cannot leave themselves or anyone else in peace. From Lucy Sallys suspicious sister to Mable their Shakespeare-quoting invalid mother to Elizabeth Mables lovely and mysteriously mute nurse the forces of the house conspire to make Roscoe question his assumptions about everything. As scars and histories are revealed Shepard shows as only he can what happens when the secrets simmering within a family boil over. Heartless masterfully explores the irrevocability of our pastsand the possibility of life begun anew.