Thursday, October 29, 2009

Gardens of the Night

This disturbing story follows into their late teens the lives of two unrelated children who bond while raised together by kidnappers and subjected to sexual abuse.
0:02 The story opens with a counselor at a shelter taking Leslie's history then flashes back to her childhood.
0:52 Leslie snorting cocaine in a bathroom

Brief scenes of a cross-dressed male at 1:05 and 1:27

1:11 Back at the shelter the counselor gathers more history and tells Leslie the rules
1:15 Leslie and another girl share a joint
1:18 Trying to comfort her, Leslie repeats what Alex, her kidnapper, told her as she grooms (literally and figuratively) a 12 year old runaway for prostitution
1:23 Leslie, having left the boy with whom she was raised, tries to drown herself in a bathtub as she recalls childhood abuse
1:27 Leslie, in another meeting with the counselor at the shelter, reveals more of her history. The counselor  challenges her version of the story of her early life. Sobbing, she acknowledges the truth, telling him her parents would not want her.

cannabis cocaine counselor cross-dressing joint Sexual Abuse of a Child suicide

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