Colin Earner

In 1985, Willem de Kooning’s “Woman-Ochre,” one of the most valuable paintings of the 20th century, vanished into the Arizona desert after being cut from its frame at the University of Arizona Museum of Art. 32 years later, the $160 million painting was found hanging in the home of Jerry and Rita Alter in rural New Mexico.

A young boy is dealing with the growing erratic and hostile behavior of his dementia afflicted grandmother. With her health rapidly deteriorating, he will bear witness to a cryptic family ritual involving a black ooze seeping tree stump and uncover a secret that stretches far back into the past.

A story of a mother's assumed last day alive, in which she reacts to a bout of post-menopausal bleeding by preparing her own burial, all while hiding from her daughter's suspicions.