![]() ![]() ![]() It is also a signal for the rest of the community to contemplate and eventually act upon. 'Honey,' she says to Victoria when the teenager turns to her for help, 'it's time for you to wake up now.' The wake-up call is for the young woman to take responsibility for being a single parent. Only another teacher, Maggie Jones, whose husband has also left home, offers a key to their silence. Fading schoolteacher Tom Guthrie feels 'mixed up and wooden' after his depressed wife abandons him, and his mild children look quietly on while their favourite horse is shot and gutted before them. Pregnant teenager Victoria has 'a private feeling that she didn't know how to talk about'. ![]() Set in a small town, Holt in Colorado, at some point in the present, Plainsong follows the parallel lives of individuals who share little else than belonging to fractured families and being muted by their own pain. ![]()
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