C010 - The Many Roads to Amelia: The Curious Estate of Manford Madison

It is Sunday, October 13th, 1918, and the Great War is on the brink of ending in Europe.  The world is deeply scarred and families have been irreparably shattered.  But for one young woman named Louise Knox, all of that seems very far away.  For she is sitting in a horse-drawn buggy that is driving through a dying, backwater town named Amelia in the heart of the bayou in southern Louisiana.  Her strange uncle Manford passed away five months ago, and the deed to his home is in question.  The bank is looking to appraise and potentially repossess the property, depending on its value.  Little is known about her late uncle, but rumour has it that he built a house on the land where he once survived a hurricane, and that his privacy was due to his fondness for young gentlemen callers.

 

As a young woman without a husband or children, she has been asked by her cousins to set aside her passion for photography and make the trek across the country in order to settle the estate.  She has apprehensively agreed, and is now out of her element.  She has been traveling for days and is dog tired, but she grows ever closer to the property in question.  Having never met her uncle, she can only wonder what awaits her.

 

She clutches her minimal luggage and the camera and handgun hidden within it as she leaves the pathetic waste of the near-abandoned town, and watches the swamp begin to intrude upon the narrow logging road that leads to her destination.  Nearly cut off from the world, the niceties and pleasantries of modern society are left as a distant rumour for a place so far removed from civilized life.  There is no electricity out here to help her keep her fear of the dark at bay during the night, and there is certainly no telegraph or telephone.

 

The air is humid and thick, even in this time of year, and the swarms of insects and cacophony of animal noises seem to be everywhere.  For the hundredth time, she checks her scribbled note to confirm that she is supposed to be meeting a lawyer named Mr. Speltzer, but her nervous energy is largely in part to her eagerness for answers and adventure.  The buggy bounces and rocks as she comes now within the final mile of the curious estate of Manford Madison....

 

CAST

KEEPER OF ARCANE SECRETS: Adam

LOUISE KNOX: Megan

 

CREW

Directors: Adam

Producers: Daniel, Adam

Story by: Adam, Daniel, and Megan

Edited by: Adam

 

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