Blue Butterfly - Inspired by a True Story

Twelve year old REBECCA MEADOWS awoke from a coma to the horrible truth that she was blind. With limited resources and the help of an ambitious attorney TOM SCHMIDT, her mother successfully won a lawsuit for the misdiagnosis of Rebecca’s brain tumor. The landmark settlement should have helped Rebecca and her family find peace and a way to move forward, but the windfall only proved to complicate her life further. As Rebecca moved into adulthood, desperate for love and acceptance, she found herself being pulled back into court by her parents and declared incompetent. The courts then locked her under a Guardianship with care providers managing every aspect of her life. In spite of living under this prison-like situation, Rebecca found love and was “allowed” to start a family with JEFF, proving herself to be a competent wife and mother. After questioning the validity of the Guardianship, she is met with abusiveness from Tom and denied access to the money from her trust account. Rejected by every lawyer in town, she stumbles upon GERRITY, an inexperienced attorney eager to become her David against Goliath. While tensions rise in an impossible-to-win two-day court battle, Rebecca retreats inward where she reconnects with her child-like self. This DOPPELGÄNGER, created in the gloomy sinkhole of Rebecca’s fractured psyche, helps her search for the truth about her loss of independence.