TURBULENCE

After Ruth's father forces her to wear a dress, instead of her usual jeans and Doc Martens, a deeply buried memory begins to surface - her father's sexual abuse of her.

In the absense of her mother who is away on a journalistic assignment, Ruth burns the dress and leaves home.

She travels to see her favourite uncle from childhood, but it is his lover, a dancer, who provides die understanding and sympathy that Ruth needs to come to terms with her past and herself.

Between reality and absurdism, Turbulence takes us on a journey through Ruth's mind, culminating in an assertion of her dignity and self-esteem. Her desire to kill her father, her ambivalence towards her mother, her fantasies and dreams, point towards more than a picture of the results of sexual abuse; they are indications that the nuclear family unit is a starting point of the abuse of power and the denial of personal dignity in our society as a whole.(GWC)