Synopsis:

A portrayal of the painful
side of a family's life,
full of loneliness and
shattered dreams.

In a school experiment.
one of the daughter's
shows that the marigolds
are affected differently by
the Gamma Rays. The
experiment becomes a
metaphor for the daughter's
own life, as she struggles
to bloom in a household
deadened by her mother's
alcoholism and her
sister's lethargy.