Status: Rejected

A divorced writer from the Midwest returns to her hometown to reconnect with an old flame, who's now married with a family.

Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately leads to the murder of an innocent man.

On an empty road in the middle of the night, Shula stumbles across the body of her uncle. As funeral proceedings begin around them, she and her cousins bring to light the buried secrets of their middle-class Zambian family.

During a year, a very content couple approaching retirement are visited by friends and family less happy with their lives.