The past is never dead, it's not even past."
--William Faulkner
Emily Logan rides in a Jeep with her husband Steven and daughters Hannah and Jessie when it is hit by a semi in a blinding snowstorm. Emily is thrown free of the wreckage but severely injured. Her husband and daughters are burned alive, their screams ring in her ears. To escape what she sees and hears Emily’s brain responds and enters into the painlessness of a coma. One that lasts 16 years.
During her coma Emily has visions of being with her family, not in the past but in the present. When she finally awakes from her coma and learns the fate of her family, she wants to return to the safety of her coma and to be with her husband and daughters. Emily’s Neurologist, Dr. Jennifer Orem is there when Emily regains consciousness and finally convinces Emily to face her pain and try to move on with her life. After nearly a year of physical, emotional and psychological therapy, Emily finally comes to grips with what she has endured including her “survivor guilt.” Yet, Emily’s dreams of her family continue. They urge her to “come home.”
As part of her recovery, Emily decides to return to an old farm her family had owned for nearly 100 years in the small historic Ohio town of Lebanon. A place where she had spent the happiest part of her childhood. And a place known for ghosts. Many ghosts. At her stay at a local inn called the Golden Lamb, Emily sees a vision of a sinister looking man in her bathroom mirror and talks to a woman. One who has been dead for almost a century. Yet, one who dresses well and likes toasted muffins.
On her first visit to the farm, Emily is depressed at what she sees. The once beautiful house is in a shambles after suffering from decades from a lack of care. Yet as she tours the house in a late afternoon on a cold January day, she finds the house deserted and frigid except for a single bedroom. When Emily finally opens the door of that room, she finds beautiful furnishings, a blazing fireplace and discovers an old black woman who had worked for her grandparent’s decades before. A woman Emily had assumed was dead. But Willamey McClendon does not appear dead. Nor does her friend, the old woman Emily had met at the Golden Lamb who is also in the room.
These two old women convince Emily she has a gift. A rare gift. A gift most likely the result by her nearly fatal head injury. A gift that will allow her to not only talk to dead people but go where the dead people go. Not heaven or hell, but places and times where time does not pass. Where there is only the present. Yet, Emily does not know how to use her gift…Yet. All she know is if she can see ghosts in the Golden Lamb and talk to them at an old farm house, why can’t she find her family in the time and place in which she can now enter?
However, to begin her quest Emily must return to her coma. Something Dr. Orem is against. For fear Emily will never wake up. But Emily is insistent and begins her search for her family with the help of several CC’s of Propofol. Every stop on her journey begins by walking up the long driveway of the farm. Never knowing what year she will find in the 200 year history of the farm.
During her coma Emily has visions of being with her family, not in the past but in the present. When she finally awakes from her coma and learns the fate of her family, she wants to return to the safety of her coma and to be with her husband and daughters. Emily’s Neurologist, Dr. Jennifer Orem is there when Emily regains consciousness and finally convinces Emily to face her pain and try to move on with her life. After nearly a year of physical, emotional and psychological therapy, Emily finally comes to grips with what she has endured including her “survivor guilt.” Yet, Emily’s dreams of her family continue. They urge her to “come home.”
As part of her recovery, Emily decides to return to an old farm her family had owned for nearly 100 years in the small historic Ohio town of Lebanon. A place where she had spent the happiest part of her childhood. And a place known for ghosts. Many ghosts. At her stay at a local inn called the Golden Lamb, Emily sees a vision of a sinister looking man in her bathroom mirror and talks to a woman. One who has been dead for almost a century. Yet, one who dresses well and likes toasted muffins.
On her first visit to the farm, Emily is depressed at what she sees. The once beautiful house is in a shambles after suffering from decades from a lack of care. Yet as she tours the house in a late afternoon on a cold January day, she finds the house deserted and frigid except for a single bedroom. When Emily finally opens the door of that room, she finds beautiful furnishings, a blazing fireplace and discovers an old black woman who had worked for her grandparent’s decades before. A woman Emily had assumed was dead. But Willamey McClendon does not appear dead. Nor does her friend, the old woman Emily had met at the Golden Lamb who is also in the room.
These two old women convince Emily she has a gift. A rare gift. A gift most likely the result by her nearly fatal head injury. A gift that will allow her to not only talk to dead people but go where the dead people go. Not heaven or hell, but places and times where time does not pass. Where there is only the present. Yet, Emily does not know how to use her gift…Yet. All she know is if she can see ghosts in the Golden Lamb and talk to them at an old farm house, why can’t she find her family in the time and place in which she can now enter?
However, to begin her quest Emily must return to her coma. Something Dr. Orem is against. For fear Emily will never wake up. But Emily is insistent and begins her search for her family with the help of several CC’s of Propofol. Every stop on her journey begins by walking up the long driveway of the farm. Never knowing what year she will find in the 200 year history of the farm.