Daily Archives: June 7, 2015

“London From My Windows” is the story of a young woman, Ava, who suffers from acute agoraphobia. It starts when, as a ten year old, her father trips and falls to the ground and dies. She feels guilty for not having saved him and pulls away and hides from the world as she lets the sadness and the fear consume her.

We fast forward almost twenty years and she has almost completely encapsulated herself from the outside world. She knows a few people, her mother, her therapist Diana, and her policeman boyfriend Cliff. She has a job as a police sketch artist but works only from her home. To the extent possible, she has pushed away the rest of the world. Going outside brings on horrific panic attacks. She is forced to the police station to do a sketch and her world melts down.

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