Saturday, 27 June 2015
Release Date: September 2015
Jennie Bateman
screamed at her daughters, cursed at her husband, packed a bag, and walked
away. Twelve years later, she petitions the family court for visitation with
her daughters, Alexis and Christa.
Her attorney tells
Jennie that, ordinarily, she could not imagine that some type of visitation
would not be granted. But, she warns, the situation is hardly ordinary.
True, Jennie
suffered from a bipolar disorder when she began to drink heavily, abandoned her
family, and moved in with another man. True, she has turned her life around:
leaving her boyfriend, returning to school, entering therapy, taking
medication, finding a job, and joining a church.
But she pressed no
claim for her children when her husband divorced her, and she has made no
attempt to contact them in any way. Her daughters are now sixteen and fourteen.
They live four hundred miles away, and they have busy lives that do not include
her, lives that will be totally disrupted by the visitation that Jennie
requests.
Their father is
engaged to be married to a woman who has taken the role of their mother for a
decade, and neither child wants anything to do with Jennie. Alexis remembers
nothing good about her. Christa recalls nothing at all.
Conflict ensues as
soon as Jennie’s petition is served: her former husband does not want to share
his children with the woman who deserted him; her children have no interest in knowing
the mother who abandoned them, and her father believes that she is being timid
and ought to demand full custody, not visitation.
As court convenes,
Jennie’s past is dredged up− the desertion, the men, her
drinking, her mental health − and hauled before the judge. Her
claim to be a different person, now, is attacked. When the judge appears to be
reluctant to grant Jennie’s request, but seems to feel that she must, her
husband’s attorney suggests three trial visits, hoping that they will go so
badly that Jennie will come to her senses and drop her petition.
Jennie wants to be
a part of her children’s lives, but can she convince them to allow her to try?
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