Reel Affirmations: The Nation's LGBT Film Festival 2009

Since his wife’s death, Arthur, a father and well-respected surgeon, takes to cocooning his daughter from the world. Lucille, his teenage daughter, seeks to escape her father's domination. Trapped in a beautiful yet bizarre mansion with only a great-aunt as her other companion, Lucille attempts suicide and succeeds in only disfiguring her face. In an effort to heal her and keep her from the fate of her mother, Arthur enlists the aid of Joan, a beautiful and experienced nurse with a questionable past. Meanwhile, he and his aged aunt pursue an experimental skin graft procedure that will remake her into an image of his beloved and departed wife. In attending to Lucille, Joan finds that she has feelings for the young girl, and Lucille in turn finds she has discovered passion and a sensual energy that rivals any experience. In their secrecy they battle the father's interference, the aunt’s peculiar obsessions, and their own unabated sexual longings. In this piercingly beautiful and strange backdrop the lovers are moving towards oblivion when operations go awry and results go haywire.