Jodie and Reese Walker's cabin Santa Barbara

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In spring 1992, Cruz Castillo leads Kelly Capwell up to an abandoned and dusty cabin which he begins to clean from top to bottom. He is going to offer it in welcome gift to his old friends, Jodie and Reese Walker, who come to join Santa Barbara on the occasion of a high school reunion party. The couple, accompanied with its son Sawyer, settles down immediately in this haven of peace in the middle of wild nature, and apparently a few minutes away by car from the city. It should be noted the chalet gives directly onto a lake, in which Kelly dives to bathe as from the first night spent there.

We enter the chalet by a wooden door which, contrary to the big logs able to isolate the walls, does not seem very thick.

Stones and wooden boards give to the cabin a rustic and warm aspect. A single room serves at the same time as lounge, dining room and kitchen. We can imagine that the Walkers, once joined by their daughter B.J ., can feel sometimes cramped in a so small space. On the left by entering is a fireplace, followed by a hidden recess occupied by armchairs and by numerous pillows used to rest or even to sleep. In the middle of the room thrones a round wooden table, for the meals.

At the bottom of the room, a door gives access to the bathroom and to the bedrooms, rooms which will be rarely shown on screen.

The kitchen area, more functional, comes then.

Adjacent to the cabin, a shed is used by Reese to do odd jobs, and by Sawyer to train for boxing. It also allows to have more personal conversations away from the others. It is in this shed that Cruz notices the tattoo worn by Frank Goodman, which puts him on the track of the sexual violence undergone by B.J. in her childhood.