Ten-year-old Margaret hides beneath a blackberry bush in her family's backyard while her brother hunts for her in a game of tag. Hers is a childhood of sunlit swimming pools and Saturday morning pancakes until, one fateful summer, everything changes. A line is crossed and the siniple joys of girlhood slip away. Twenty-five years later, Margaret hides under her parents' bed back home, waiting for her young daughters to find her.
She's recently divorced and discovering the pleasures of a new boyfriend. But some part of her is still under the blackberry bush from all those summers ago, punched out of time. She must now reckon with the echoes between the past and the present, and the family she carries inside herself as she builds one of her own. Sleep is about the burdens and gifts of love and what lies on the other side of silence : the world, rich in possibility.
Ten-year-old Margaret hides beneath a blackberry bush in her family's backyard while her brother hunts for her in a game of tag. Hers is a childhood of sunlit swimming pools and Saturday morning pancakes until, one fateful summer, everything changes. A line is crossed and the siniple joys of girlhood slip away. Twenty-five years later, Margaret hides under her parents' bed back home, waiting for her young daughters to find her.
She's recently divorced and discovering the pleasures of a new boyfriend. But some part of her is still under the blackberry bush from all those summers ago, punched out of time. She must now reckon with the echoes between the past and the present, and the family she carries inside herself as she builds one of her own. Sleep is about the burdens and gifts of love and what lies on the other side of silence : the world, rich in possibility.