Charles and Sue, brother and sister, are raised in a home with a verbally abusive and sometime physically abusive stepfather who berates Charles in particular at every opportunity, calling him ungrateful and implying he's lazy and unappreciative. (Young Charles is played by Miles, so you have some idea how old he is in the movie - Sue is his younger sister) One day, while father and son are fishing in a river, the father tells the son that this is where he wants to end his days.
A grown up Sue is waiting in line to visit her brother in Prison. The guards aren't very helpful, but she gets passed through to a waiting room where she sits with a bunch of other visitors. Charles is taken from his cell to meet her. Finally Sue is shown through to a room where Charles picks up a phone so he can talk to her. He is very quiet, barely speaking throughout the whole piece. She tells him she is moving out of State and that she can't visit any more, and that she doesn't want to visit him anymore. He asks to see the kids, but she refuses to bring them to the prison. She accuses him of being selfish and taking away her chance to clear the air with their stepfather. Charles hangs up the phone and leaves, silently, as Sue cries then hangs up and also leaves.
Charles visits his stepfather in hospital and removes the oxygen feed from his nose. He wheels him outside then sets off with him on the back of his motorbike, across country to the river where they'd fished many years earlier. Sue arrives at the hospital and is upset to find her stepfather missing after being visited by Charles, and gets angry with the nurse who says that they couldn't legally stop him leaving the hospital. Charles arrives at the river and eases his stepfather into the water, releasing him to float away on his back in the flow. He gets back on his bike and returns home
These three threads interweave throughout the movie, gradually unfolding the tale of what happened and why.
A grown up Sue is waiting in line to visit her brother in Prison. The guards aren't very helpful, but she gets passed through to a waiting room where she sits with a bunch of other visitors. Charles is taken from his cell to meet her. Finally Sue is shown through to a room where Charles picks up a phone so he can talk to her. He is very quiet, barely speaking throughout the whole piece. She tells him she is moving out of State and that she can't visit any more, and that she doesn't want to visit him anymore. He asks to see the kids, but she refuses to bring them to the prison. She accuses him of being selfish and taking away her chance to clear the air with their stepfather. Charles hangs up the phone and leaves, silently, as Sue cries then hangs up and also leaves.
Charles visits his stepfather in hospital and removes the oxygen feed from his nose. He wheels him outside then sets off with him on the back of his motorbike, across country to the river where they'd fished many years earlier. Sue arrives at the hospital and is upset to find her stepfather missing after being visited by Charles, and gets angry with the nurse who says that they couldn't legally stop him leaving the hospital. Charles arrives at the river and eases his stepfather into the water, releasing him to float away on his back in the flow. He gets back on his bike and returns home
These three threads interweave throughout the movie, gradually unfolding the tale of what happened and why.