The Journal

Twenty-eight-year-old Samantha (Sam) lapses into an inexplicable coma after giving birth to a child covered with a 'veil.' Family secrets and long forgotten events are brought to the present as the family waits for Sam to come out of her coma; as they find a journal written when Sam was only a child, a journal that contains detailed personal and sometimes graphic information about their lives, written as if Sam had been there reading their minds. The following excerpt from Sam's journal was...