Like Blood In A Darkroom
New Year’s Even 1997: Four friends from high school – Carrie, Lin, Alan and Lars – meet for one last time in an isolated holiday house to party all night before they go their separate ways.
December 1, 1997
– everything is connected
New Year’s Even 1997: Four friends from high school – Carrie, Lin, Alan and Lars – meet for one last time in an isolated holiday house to party all night before they go their separate ways.
Carrie and Lin are on their way home after a late-night cinema-trip, talking about if they should be jealous of their two friends – Alan and Nadine – for being in a relationship.
On the run from drug-addiction and her violent ex-boyfriend, Carrie is hiding out in a small Montana town. When she is witness to bikers assaulting a man she has to make yet another choice about life or death.
In a boarding house on the Pacific Coast, Carrie meets a potential new friend whose scars may rival her own.
Carrie has finally ditched both drugs and her violent boyfriend, Jeremy. So is it at last time to get rid of the gun she has kept within close reach since leaving Jeremy? Maybe not.
Carrie becomes obsessed with finding out the fate of one Anna Lee Shepherd – a teenage survivor from a destructive Civil War raid.
A lonely cop—Jon—is trying to figure out if he has the courage to start a relationship with the lonely waitress, Carrie. Or if he even should, since he (rightly) suspects she, like himself, is ‘damaged goods’.
Jon tries to save a young man from juvenile detention while reflecting on how his own brother saved him from the same fate many years ago.
On a bus-ride, Carrie befriends Anna, an elderly photographer. Carrie has a family now but is not happy. She wonders if she can live what she has left of her life without trying once more to realize her old dreams of becoming an artist herself.
During her dead-end cleaning job at the nursing home, Carrie struggles with anxiety about not being able to break free.
Carrie tries to discuss some of her personal problems with her estranged father – perhaps too early.
Jon tries to save a young boy from drowning, but is swept away by a flash flood himself.
Carrie is offered 100,000 dollars from an obscure religious organization to ‘change her life’.