The Garver family
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The Garver family is a taciturn family. In this house, we keep silent, we weigh each of the words which must be pronounced, we keep silent about ones feelings. To express them is not something which can be done. And behind this silence hide violence and incomprehension : too many unspoken things which lock each of the family members into isolation and take them away from each other. And, at the heart of this world at the edge of the explosion, a woman serves as a cornerstone, maintaining more or less easily an appearance of unity in the family.

Lucas is a cold, hard man, as this place in Virginia where he built his farm. His heart is like Cain's mountains of Utah, inaccessible. For lack of knowing how to make otherwise, he transmits the education which he received to his two sons even if, at times, he feels that it is not the right way to follow (he had nevertheless promised to himself not to be as his father). If he gets regularly opposed to Adam, Caleb seems to understand better the terms of obedience and submission.

With Adam, everything was only opposition. Nevertheless, he had to make a man of this boy who was his wife's favorite. He gave punches to his sons, until the family explodes : Adam flees the house on a whim to enlist in the Army, and the only woman of the family dies a short time later. The family has to adapt itself : Caleb succeeds his father, within a farm haunted by silence. Jessie, Caleb's wife, finds a small place to exist, being used to this lifestyle.

The mountains which imprison each of the Garver sons will collapse with the return of Adam / Cain. After a violent reunion and the discovery of the wounds of time (the death of their parents, their respective suffering), Caleb and Adam will find a way to begin to get closer and to weave a link between them. They will eventually admit with their own words the brotherly love which binds them.

Adam's departure of Santa Barbara will make sink into oblivion this family which would have deserved to find a little peace...

Text written for this site by Lilian