and what follows is a shock to all involved. Through his persistence, Alicia responds. He learns of her mother’s death when Alicia was a child, of her father’s rejection, her aunt’s cruelty, and above all, her overwhelming love for Gabriel. He goes beyond the usual procedures and contacts her family and friends, seeking their views of his patient and why she did what she did. At the initial one, Alicia attacks him viciously, but Theo perseveres. There was no time to waste: Alicia was lost. “I became resolved to stop at nothing until Alicia became my patient. He’s followed Alicia’s trial and story and believes he can help her speak again and tell exactly what happened that night. When a staff opening comes available at the Groves, psychotherapist Theo Farber applies for the position. “It was the only explanation that made any sense: Why else tie up the man you loved to a chair and shoot him in the face at close range? And then express no remorse, give no explanation, not even speak. It was also noted she had shortly before completed a portrait of Gabriel as a crucified Christ, with the gun killing him prominently portrayed in the painting.Īlicia is subsequently declared insane and admitted to the Grove, a secure psychiatric unit in North London. Her only action is a painting of herself, done after she is released from the hospital, depicting how she looked that day. Why she killed him, on the other hand, remained a mystery.” There was never any doubt she killed Gabriel. “The facts, such as they were, were simple: Alicia was found alone with Gabriel’s body only her fingerprints were on the gun. The gun lies nearby on the floor.Īlicia’s wrists have been slashed. He has been bound to a chair and shot five times. ”Ĭalled to a residence by reports of shots fired, the police find artist Alicia Berenson standing beside the body of her husband Gabriel, a photographer. “dramatically proves no man is an island and whatever happens in one person’s life may in turn affect another, for better or worse.
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