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 Former
talented sports person (he owns many cups at his home, remnants of a
past life), Ben Gillis is presented to Warren Lockridge on a night when
the tension between him and Maggie Gillis has become too high, weighing like a
too heavy burden on her shoulders.
While
Warren learns the existence of a husband and a past for Maggie, this
latter advances a wheelchair in the center of the room, and tells the
tragedy that struck her life. Ben is paralyzed, blind, deaf and mute
since 1982, when he was working on a Capwell oil rig, before it explodes.
The different doctors can not decide on his current capabilities.
Ben
spends his time between a centre and his apartment when Maggie is
present and can look after him. Ben,
in more of being the center of a new love triangle, is also the center
of a legal battle between Warren and Maggie opposite to C.C. Capwell,
whom they judge responsible for the accident on the oil rig. To show
that she expects justice and not a financial compensation, Maggie
introduces also her husband to Mason Capwell, the only lawyer who has
agreed to defend his file against the Capwell empire. Ben
is finally placed in a
nursing clinic
by Maggie, determined to rebuild
her
life however without forgetting
him. While the
legal battle is in full swing,
Ben slowly fades,
just like the
presence of his wife... Portrait
written for this site by Lilian
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