SYNOPSIS:

Adrena Reynolds, born to a teenage mother has spent her first few years of life with a loving grandmother. Adrena is stripped away and used as a pawn for drug money from her grandmother and the welfare system. Uneducated, Adrena languishes in an abusive environment where prostitution, stealing and scams are a way of life that culminates in a sadistic rape at the age of ten by the man she knows as her stepfather. While suffering months of surgery and years of foster homes, the system drops the most heinous of all results of the drug culture into the lap of a young, beautiful psychiatrist who reaches a severely damaged child the only way she can, with love. Vivian Matthews programs Adrena, and like a sponge the child absorbs and imitates her mentor. Vivian introduces her to a world Adrena could never have envisioned. Vivian shares more than education, money, possessions and time with Adrena; she shares her family, which offers a wonderful backdrop to the suspense of Adrena's particular psychosis. Harnessing Adrena's insecurities, anger and violence is a monumental task that Vivian hopes she has equipped Adrena with through therapy and drugs. However, Adrena is damaged in ways that can't be reached; she is constantly haunted by the voices of her tormentors whom she vows to kill in hopes of silencing them. What Vivian has actually done is provide Adrena with a mask. She is cunning, cool and lovable and she kills without detection. Therapy and love brings Adrena to the brink of happiness, but her insane legacy will not allow Adrena to live . . . and let live. These two women share this story and the reflections are amazing. It is a psychological glimpse into the lives of African American women that has never been explored and brings "The Color Purple" into the new millennium with a bang!