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Based on real-life accounts, Afterwards offers honest, raw depictions of victims of sexual abuse. Using just five actresses, the women recount the traumatic and honest experiences of victims who have experienced abuse at different stages in their lives. Here, they set up their individual circumstances. However, they speak as one voice--one shared experience of pain, hurt, and shame.
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KENDRA: I never thought I would do this.
CAROLINE: I don't like to talk about what happened.
SISSY: I have no-one to talk to.
MEG: I guess you might want to hear the story first.
ALL: Afterwards
JENNY: you'll know how come I feel this way.
SISSY: I remember the absolute shocking moment,
MEG: Where the world stops to move,
KENDRA: Everything is motionless
CAROLINE: and dead around you.
JENNY: You try to make your body "hard"
CAROLINE: As a stone,
SISSY: Trying not to feel what happens.
MEG: But you feel it anyway.
KENDRA: And your emotions totally change.
JENNY: Confusion
SISSY: Shock
KENDRA: Pain.
CAROLINE: Sadness.
MEG: The sadness goes in so deep –
JENNY: It never really leaves.
KENDRA: My name is Kendra.
MEG: Meg.
CAROLINE: Caroline.
SISSY: Sissy.
JENNY: Jenny.
KENDRA: I was sixteen.
SISSY: Forty seven.
JENNY: Twenty three
CAROLINE: Eight.
MEG: Fourteen.
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