The Mourning Hour Short Film, IndieGoGo Donate
The Mourning Hour is the story of one woman’s journey to wholeness…
In the wake of news that her husband has been tragically killed in a train accident, Virginia Bakely(Shevaun Kastl),a 1950’s suburban housewife and mother afflicted with a heart condition,unwittingly embarks on an emotional and psychological journey of reawakening. She finds herself traveling through two distinct spaces of time: one in her typical 1950’s home with oven timers, bicycles and rubber gloves, and the other in the F.W.
Walker Music Auditorium when she was a 19 year old cellist in the student orchestra. One might say that her experiences in the theatre lie somewhere between dream and delusion, speckled with fragments of memory. Still, they are very real and lead Virginia to a buried truth and resurrected love. As she struggles to reconcile predictable feelings of loss and grief with newfound independence, Virginia finds herself at a crossroads where she alone must answer the question “What sustains the human heart?”
