Tera's Tale

<p>Through her fiercely independent yet childlike eyes Tera allows us to enter the recesses of her guarded world. Her Aussie sister Beth walks with us compassionately guiding and explaining.</p><p>Tera’s life? A world of secrets. A place of shame. A lifetime of expanding mental illness. Tera moves from collector to hoarder progressively tipped by the compulsion into a perilous world of rats and disease. </p><p>As Tera repeatedly expressed through words actions and even rage she did not live like other people. And yet living an ordinary life of home and family was her greatest desire. </p><p>It would never be.</p>