Police Officer David Serling is called to the abandoned Yorktown Hospital and finds the door wide open. He and his partner enter but then split up to investigate and David disappears.
One year later, his wife Sarah hires a film crew to make a documentary on her search to discover what really happened to David. The police haven’t been helpful. His supervisor resigned one month after his disappearance without ever talking to her or releasing information. Does he have control over that?
Sarah wants the film crew to follow her while she tracks down her husbands movements. She starts by going to the houses of his supervisor, who isn’t interesting in dealing with her. Then she visits his partner, who escaped the hospital without injury. Well, he seems to have terrible PTSD, but Sarah ignores that. Her whole tactic of getting information is flawed. Instead of trying to appeal to their humanity, she immediately antagonizes them by being aggressive and rude. It does not go well.
Usually a woman who’s husband disappeared would be a sympathetic character, but Sarah is not. She tends to be sarcastic, condescending, and angry. She’s also kind of an idiot. When someone calls to say they have info about her husband and to come alone, she brings the film crew with her. Later she shows up at a shaman’s house with the cameras running. If you’re trying to get information from people, ask if you can film. Because when you start filming them without their consent, they already know they can’t trust you. And why would they help you after that?
The shaman asked her to bring a personal item of Davids, and she chooses his police radio. The last thing I would think of as a personal item would be something from work. But it turns out to be convenient for the plot since soon we hear a voice coming through the radio. I couldn’t help but think what if she brought one of his shoes.
Sarah’s idiocy rises to the surface again when during the ceremony, she grabs the radio when she hears the voice and starts shouting into it. Thus interrupting the ritual and destroying any hope of getting information. This all leads to Sarahs’s last resort being going back to the hospital in a last ditch effort to find her husband. Oh Sarah, what will we do with you.
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| The many moods of Sarah |
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| Getting ready to meet someone who has info |
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| Waking up is the most emotional part of Sarah’s day |
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| Visiting the Shaman |
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| Heading to where her husband disappeared |
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| The dust free tapes and tape recorder |
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| Finding her missing bloody soaked husband |
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| Realizing something may be amiss |
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| Finally reacting when the cameraman takes off |
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