Annie drives to her grief support group meeting, but decides to turn around while still in the parking lot. Annie grieves alone while sitting in the car in the driveway. Peter experiences a panic attack while smoking marijuana, before biking home from school. Steve looks through Charlie's sketchbook of drawings. Annie comes outside when it is light outside and is horrified to find her daughter's headless body in the car's backseat. After sitting and staring in entranced shock, Peter drives home in a calm daze. Charlie is decapitated when her head violently hits a utility pole. Peter swerves to avoid an animal in the road. Charlie sticks her head out the window in an effort to breathe better. Peter carries his sister to his car and rushes her toward the hospital along a dark country road. Charlie begins choking as she experiences an anaphylactic reaction. Left unsupervised, Charlie unknowingly eats chocolate cake containing a substance to which she is allergic. Many of women at the party are wearing long flannel-style shirts. Flustered at having to monitor his sister, Peter blows off Charlie so he can smoke marijuana with Bridget and their friends. Annie forces Peter to take Charlie with him to the party. Charlie tells Annie that she wants Ellen. Charlie makes her clucking noise when she is shaken out of her trance. Charlie experiences a vision of her grandmother surrounded by fire. Annie asks Peter if he invited his sister to go with him, since he claimed it was a party related to their school. Peter asks his mother if he can go to a party where he hopes to see Bridget, a classmate he is interested in. Gallery owner Silvia Archer contacts Annie about progress on her new works, which include a piece featuring Ellen. Charlie sees a strange light in her bedroom. Annie openly discloses her mother's mental health issues including the dissociative identity disorder and dementia. When she arrives at the meeting it is dark outside. Annie tells Steve she is going to a movie, but actually attends a grief counseling support group. Steve receives word from the cemetery that Ellen's grave was desecrated, but he decides to not tell his wife. A woman across the street waves at Charlie. Charlie goes outside and cuts off the bird's head. A bird dies by flying into one of Charlie's classroom windows at school. Annie later sees a haunting vision of Ellen after looking through a memory book while in Annie's workshop. To Annie's confusion, Charlie also wonders aloud who will care for her now that Ellen is dead. Charlie claims that her grandmother always wished Charlie were a boy. Annie talks to Charlie about Ellen at bedtime that night. Charlie makes a clucking noise while drawing a strange sketch during the speech. Steve's wife Annie, an artist who sculpts miniature dioramas, delivers the eulogy at her mother's service. Steve finds Charlie sleeping in the tree house. Steve Graham wakes his teenage son Peter and 13-year-old daughter Charlie for their 78-year-old grandmother Ellen Taper Leigh's funeral. The story begins with the viewer looking out from a window in a workshop to a tree house, then turning and zooming in to a bedroom in a dollhouse that is in the workshop.
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