What is an abyss?
For Helga, it is endless, unmitigated and horribly unjust suffering. Beside Eva and Helga are Evelyn (Connie Cooper) and Faith (Rebecca Tindel-Bivens), a modern mother-daughter team suffering the kind of estrangement that happens often when the daughter grows up and moves out. Sophisticated and English-accented, Evelyn is the woman little Eva will eventually become. Her daughter, Faith, is rummaging through the attic, looking for things to cart off to her new apartment. They quarrel, and Evelyn is left feeling lonely and frustrated. Something about her daughter’s leaving home has her all discombobulated and triggers memories of the past. We discover she has never told Faith about her life before England. Faith has no idea that her mother was born Jewish, that she herself is Jewish according to Jewish law. It’s a secret Evelyn has kept for for 40 years, with the help of Lil (Peg Glazer), her English foster mother. Despite Evelyn’s efforts to keep history at bay, her secret comes out, ta
