Still Life with June

A disaffected writer gets caught in the morass of complicated human relationships when he appropriates the life of a former patient and befriends his mentally challenged sister.The people in gay bars on Christmas Day are so desperate for basic human contact that they''d go home with a Doc Marten shoe if it made a move and maybe even if it didn''t.So begins the story of Cameron Dodds a disenfranchised writer who visits gay bars on Christmas and works at a Salvation Army Drug and Alcohol Treatment Center in order to steal the stories of the people he meets there. But when Cameron finds a patient hanged in the utilities closet his infatuation with other people''s stories becomes an obsession. Assuming the man''s identity Cameron seeks out and forges a relationship with the victim''s mentally challenged sister who lives in a home uptown. As Cameron becomes more involved in the woman''s life he begins to discover truths that will challenge him to the very core of his existence.