Billie Rae Bates

In 1968 new Bishop Thomas Gumbton in Detroit is faced with a city filled with uncertainty and a community divided by anger.

Desperate for cash, a down on his luck party emcee is corrupted by his shameless uncle to steal his grandmother's top secret pickle recipe.

Four friends break into an abandoned insane asylum in search of a death certificate which will grant one of them a large inheritance. However, finding it soon becomes the least of their worries in a place haunted by dark memories.

"A promise to her dead mother is all that 10 year old Crystal has left. Will she break it to save herself, or keep it and be sold again?"

An experimental narrative that exposes different perspectives of identity issues through the relationship between 13-year old Amelia and her mother Louise as they undergo difficult breaking points in their relationship, as well as personal growth, when Amelia finds that the way she views herself is a reflection of her own mother and the only way she can grow is through separation and acceptance