section 5: treatment

Synopsis
Adalade Mathews is tormented by her abusive past. She finds it difficult to enter dark and scary places, as these places make her re-visit her trauma of the past. Her father kept Adalade captive in an attic when she was seven years old, after her mother was killed in a car accident. Adalade’s father was given the sentence of 13 years imprisonment but later came to find his daughter and gain revenge. By the time her father is released, Adalade is now a mother of one and a successful psychologist and studies domestic abuse. Whilst at a dinner party she calls her friend whom is babysitting her daughter. During this phone call she hears the abduction of her daughter and that all too familiar sound of her fathers sinister laughs. This is when Adalade realises that she is the only one who can stop him to save her daughter. She uses her connections in the law enforcement and her knowledge of domestic predators to follow her fathers trail. Whilst in the haste of trying to find her abducted daughter, she is a witness to a car accident; she immediately sees the connection between this accident and her own mother death. Scratched in to the bonnet of the car involved was an address. This leads her to the place where it all started. Adalade now realises what she has to do, she acquires a gun. Goes to the address scratched in to the bonnet and has to overcome her trauma of being in the house where her domestic abuse began. After struggling to enter the house she is surprised by her father who ties up Adalade next to her daughter in the attic. Adalade manages to become free using a protruding nail from the floor boards, and shoots her father repeatedly in the chest.