The Disappeared aka Guardian Angels

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When the film begins she has no idea what she is about to see. Nor does she realise what devastating consequences this film and the decisions she then makes will have on the rest of her life.

She has placed the projector on the coffee table, and the film is showing on a screen which she hastily dug out of the storeroom and set up in the middle of the floor. To get the angle right, she has propped the projector up on a book: Ira Levin’s A Kiss Before Dying. A friend gave it to her for Christmas, and she hasn’t yet plucked up the courage to read it.

The sound of the projector as it feeds the film through sounds like hail tapping against a window pane. The room is in darkness and she is alone in the house. She can’t explain why she was curious about the film right from the start. Perhaps it’s because she can’t remember having seen it before. Or because she feels there is a reason why it has been kept hidden from her.

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