2006, UK
In Andrew Parkinson’s Venus Drowning, a young woman named Dawn (Jodie Jameson, also of Parkinson’s segment in Little Deaths) finds out that her long-term boyfriend has succumbed to his long battle with cancer, and loses her gestating child to a miscarriage in the same day.
After a failed suicide attempt, she is advised by her psychiatrist to go somewhere that she associates with happy memories, and she opts for the seaside vacation flat where she spent her childhood.
She surrounds herself with drawings, dolls, security blankets that she rescues from old dusty boxes in the basement.
She arranges them on the kitchen table like an altar to her childhood, a time before the tragedy.
But the drawings reveal darker memories – a woman drowning, the alcoholism of her despondent mother – and she soon finds herself at the centre of a one-woman emotional shootout.
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