Rain Dance
Synopsis
The
senator looks forward to a peaceful
weekend in the comfort of his isolated mansion.Dressed in a man’s suit,
Rain Dance enters the senator’s mansion and waits for the senator to
arrive. When she leaves the mansion, the senator is dead. The ends of
two chopsticks stick out from his wide-open eyes.
Miles away from the senators’
mansion, Rain Dance parks the car,
listens to the falling rain, and lets her mind travel three years into
her past.
Felicia works as an intern at a
senator’s office. The senator lures her
to join him and two distinguish colleagues of his from his college
years at the Mountain Retreat. Like savages from hell, the three of
them rape and mutilate Felicia. Thinking she is dead, they throw her
body in the muddy waters of a river in the dark hours of that rainy
night. A man named Black Moon saves her from her watery grave, tends
her wounds, and calls her: Rain Dance.
Felicia’s mother, Helena, reports
her missing daughter to the police
department. The detective’s name is Hound Dog Billy, Black Moon’s son.
Billy’s advise to Helena is: Don’t talk to anyone, don’t place a
Missing Person ad, don’t call Felicia’s employer.
When Billy arrives at his father’s
house with the weekly groceries, he
finds Felicia’s unconscious body in his father’s bed. Billy stares with
horror at her mutilated body. Through nightmares, Felicia reveals her
dreadful ordeal and the names of her rapists: a senator, a land
developer, and an attorney.
Billy wants to report the crime, but
his father forbids him. Since his
wife’s death, Black-Moon trusts no one – especially the white man’s
justice. Rain Dance should be the one deciding whether to report her
ordeal to the authorities or not. Billy informs Helena that her
daughter is alive.
Ten days later, Felicia wakes up
from her unconscious state. After her
first bowl of soup, the intolerable memories rush into her mind. She
knows her mutilated body will be cured, but how would she cure her
raped soul? The court, the judge and the jury, the psychiatrists?
She’ll be raped and mutilated time and again for days, months, years.
To purify herself she looks not to human justice. Kill the one who
Kills, and, an eye for an eye is the only way to heal her body and
spirit and to expiate her lost soul.
Billy quits the police force and
becomes a brick mason. Helena sells
her house and moves to Black Moon’s house – to be with her daughter.
Black Moon and Billy train Felicia how to run, how to become a shadow,
to shoot an arrow, to use a gun. Felicia and Billy fall in love. They
love each other in the purest sense. Their relationship will remain as
such until she finishes her sworn mission.
Felicia discovers the body of a
young woman in the river. She blames
herself for the terrible fate of the girl. If she had reported her own
tragedy to the authorities, the girl would be alive. Felicia asks many
questions of herself, begins to have doubts, and loses her faith to her
sworn mission. With the help and devotion of her mother, Black Moon,
and Billy, Felicia uproots her doubts and restores her loss faith. By
the third year, when Billy is sure that Felicia is ready to accomplish
her mission without harming herself, Felicia discovers two more
mutilated bodies of young women in the river.
Felicia opens her eyes. Three years
of her life were squeezed into ten
minutes memory. She calls the police to report the death of the senator.
Seven days after the senator’s
death, the land developer is tied up and
dead on the same bed the three of them raped and killed their helpless
victims.
The next morning, Felicia’s fifteen
page, “My Confession,” her detailed
ordeal, hits the airwaves. The same morning, the attorney shoots
himself in the head.
It’s a small funeral. The parents of
the three young women decided that
their daughters died in the hands of the same people. Their daughters
shared the same grief and despair, the same fate, and they should
also share the same grave.
A young woman dressed in a black
dress, walks on the grounds of the
cemetery. She kneels on the soft moist soil of the grave and throws a
white rose on the top of each coffin. She murmurs, “Go to sleep.
Monsters and savages will chase you no more. Our spirits are free.” She
turns around and begins distancing herself from the grieving families.
Somehow, they all know who she is. “The Confessor.” She reaches the
road, and without looking back, she disappears from their vision.