When a fragile artist teams up with a gruff ex-cop to investigate her father’s mysterious death, her extra-perceptive vision reveal dark family secrets that force her confront the killer, her volatile sister.

SYNOPSIS:

“The greatest source of our suffering is the lies we tell ourselves.” -Elvin Semrad.

A sheltered young woman, with the support of an unlikely ally, finds the courage to face the truth about her family’s unspeakable secrets.

Jo avoids conflict with her older, controlling sister Erin, agreeing to go to a store despite ‘what happened last time.’ When an image of a rose-filled bathtub triggers a ‘blank out’, Jo wanders trance-like into the busy parking lot, and is nearly run over. Erin is frustrated that Jo can’t remember what triggers her or what happens during the blank-outs. Jo spends most of her time in an artist's studio where she’s the master of all she sees. She paints a portrait of her beloved father, Archie, eagerly awaiting his return from prison. When he shows up at her niece’s (Lily) birthday party, Jo is overjoyed. But, a few days later she’s devastated when she finds him dead from an apparent suicide. Jo’s new neighbor, an older black woman, Florence Mackowski (Mack), is an ex-cop who suspects foul play in Archie’s death, but doesn’t want to get involved in ‘family matters’, having quit the force after her daughter overdosed. While it’s not obvious to them, Mack and Jo need each other, for different reasons. Jo begs Mack to help, Mack resists but...

They eventually collaborate to investigate Archie’s death, and the fun and games ensue as their personalities clash. With Mack’s help, Jo begins to manage her blank outs and reveals her unusual ability to detect when people are lying through her extra-perceptive vision. Jo plays a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a new suspect, Erin’s boyfriend, Neil, against Mack’s advice, which heightens tensions with Mack and between the sisters as Erin’s jealousy boils over. Neil tries to kill Jo, setting her studio on fire. Mack and Jo save each other, but Jo’s world is forever changed...her studio is destroyed, and Erin refuses to hear the truth about Neil. To move forward, Jo must confront her own traumatic past.

Jo recalls disturbing memories of her mother committing suicide and Jo being trapped in the bathroom with her mother’s corpse. As more memories flood back, including Archie sexually-abusing Erin, Jo suspects that Erin killed Archie to protect Lily. Jo helps Erin come to grips with the past, and the sisters begin to heal. Mack finds redemption and purpose in life, as she helps Jo and volunteers at a woman’s shelter. Jo’s new-found confidence and sense of independence enable her to move into own place, and connect deeply with others, including Lily, whom she teaches how to paint.

A TASTE OF BLUE