LAVENDER (Feature Length, Psychological Thriller)

Five-year-old ALAN RUTTER's terrified face stares out at us while his trembling body is pushed hard into a corner, his knees tight against his chest. Confusion surrounds him as a police officer makes a futile attempt to offer comfort. When his aunt LORETTA arrives, she is informed that there has been an "accident." Alan is the only surviving family member and he is in severe shock. Loretta vainly attempts to console him but when she sees his fixation, she cannot control her scream.

Thirty years later. Alan is now married to JANE, and they have a daughter, ALICE. He has very little memory of his family and none of his FATHER. But Loretta dies, and with her death Alan's demons start to resurface as old nightmares return. He inherits the house in which the "accident" occurred; a house he thought had been sold long ago. In hopes of burying his past and with the encouragement of LIAM, his therapist, Alan decides to return to the house. At Jane's insistence, she and Alice accompany him.

At an old Victorian farmhouse, twenty miles from the nearest town, Alan faces his past; a past in which his father killed himself, Alan's MOTHER and Alan's little sister SUSIE. From the moment Alan arrives, he feels uncomfortable. But then PATRICK, an old friend of the family, arrives and tells him stories of happier times. Alan starts to come to grips with the past and feel better about the present.

Alan's relief is short-lived. His nightmares intensify and in his search for answers, he begins to question his own sanity. When his daughter starts sharing his visions, he knows that his past has come back to haunt them all, and until he faces it, none of them are safe.