Survivor's Victory: Finding Inner Power (Strength) in the Rubble of Life/Survivor's Victory: Demolition of Pain (working titles)
Short Summary: When Anastasia's father requests her presence, due to a terminal condition, just as her life is going well as a young woman, she takes a trip back to her old family home in response to his dying wish to help him sell the house to settle some debts and to help him make his funeral arrangements which includes the sale of the home that her mother bought with him during the years of their marriage as he attempts to seek her forgiveness and tries to reconcile despite his historical transgressions against her mother. However, once her father passes away with the house still unsold as Anastasia sifts through the family memories of her childhood via her mother's journal which she finds unexpectedly inside the house, with each room unlocking a history of trauma, she starts to understand the true extent of the horrors that lie within the walls of her childhood home that her mother never spoke off in too much detail due to Anastasia's young years and details about her father's secret drug addiction as she packs up his past and shows potential buyers around as well as reflecting on her own memories of her childhood which visit her throughout. Later when Anastasia decides to try and get the house demolished instead, due to her mother's suicide less than a year after their departure from it as a result of the domestic violence that she suffered, she faces opposition from his family members and meets a young trainee lawyer that might be able to help her challenge her mother’s death certificate which states her manner of death as suicide which Anastasia wants changed to homicide so that her father’s responsibility for her mother’s death is legally acknowledged. At that point she must also help a child and their parent in a similar position to her own position as a child, both of whom are living at the mercy of an abusive alcoholic as she attempts to help them to escape, survive and to find a place of safety where they can rebuild their lives as she tries to sidestep and avoid any possible repetition of the traumatic violent and abusive events from history that claimed her own mother’s life. Written by Jill Thrussell
NB: as well as the direct deaths of victims of domestic violence from violent abuse an estimated additional 900 plus suicidal deaths also occur in the UK each year due to domestic violence where victims of domestic violence do not survive the abuse in the long term and are driven to suicide due to the violent and other destructive actions and abusive behaviour towards their person by their abuser. (estimation quote from research figures from Churchill Fellow Dr Tim Woodhouse and this film will include a closing tribute to the Suicide is Homicide Campaign)
Genre: Drama
Survivor's Victory: Finding Inner Power in the Pain/Survivor's Victory: Finding Inner Strength in the Pain/Survivor's Victory: Demolition of Pain (working titles)
Soundtrack Songlist:
- When Life Defeats You
- Don’t Let Pain Take Away Your Today/Don't Let Pain Take Your Breath Away
- Trophy of Pain
- Survivor's Victory
- I'll Be Your Parachute