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Melanie | Melanie arrives home from hospital after a car
accident in which she was badly injured. Her plastic surgeon husband has
done an amazing repair job to her facial injuries, but nobody can heal the
mental anguish. Soon she begins to hear the haunting and menacing voices
of two teenagers who were killed in the accident, and her marriage and job
- indeed her very sanity - are threatened. Things get worse when
government inspectors arrive unexpectedly at Melanie's high-tech
electronics company and the board threaten to have her removed. Even her
company's main rival has found out something is wrong. Her family, friends
and colleagues - even those she trusts - never hear the voices, so Melanie
must be going insane... or is there another explanation?
With slight alteration the lead role of Melanie could effectively be played by a disabled actress. |
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| Richard |
her husband |
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| Chris |
an engineer |
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| Barbara |
Melanie's mother |
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| Gemma |
a friend |
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| Helen |
company solicitor |
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| Dorothy Watson |
older |
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| Philip Watson |
older |
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| Tony |
teen, voice only |
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| Amanda |
teen, voice only |
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| Franz |
Dutch engineer |
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