The body of a woman is found in a deserted house in Concord, New Hampshire in 2008. Beside her are two journals full of writing. This intriguing, achingly sad documentary pieces together the life and death of Linda Bishop, who chose to starve to death rather than ask for help from the neighbouring house, just 500 feet away. There are parallels with Carol Morley’s exquisite, elusive Dreams of a Life. While this is a more conventional piece of film-making, it leaves us haunted by the same questions – how a society can fail its most vulnerable members so completely.
