Movie Description:
Julia is the breadwinner and axis to a family of dependents whose needs drown her own personal desires in an exhausting daily struggle to make endsmeet: paying the bills, delivering telephone books, chauffeuring her family, struggling to raise her daughters. Sales are down, paychecks arelate, grocery shopping is a dismal choice between tuna in oil and tuna in water and smack in the middle of it all a wave of excruciating migraineheadaches. Inside her splittingmind, disturbing visions erupt: broken transmissions of rippling water, wooden raftersand blasted white windows ofa cavernous warehouse sized ROOM, a space at once menacing and mysterious. The visions intensify, as Julia experiences blackouts while shopping,working, driving...until she can no longer ignore the signs. Making a seriesof desperate choices, she robs her employer, abandons her family, grabs aplane and arrives completely unprepared on the streets of New York City. Alone, in a feabag hotel in Queens, she stands naked before her image in a mirror...then shuts off the lights. Her pilgrimage has begun.
