- Susan Frame has an obsessive love for her son, who is in the U.S. military. She tries to prevent him from going to Iraq.
- On his birthday, U.S. Army private Michael Frame has only one night to spend with both his obsessive mother and his patient fiancée, Liza, before departing for Iraq to join the war. Mrs. Frame just knows that if she "lets Michael go," she will never see him again. But Michael insists that he must fulfill his call of duty and defend his country. So, Mrs. Frame decides to lace his bedtime juice with the sleeping pills prescribed for her anxiety. Unbeknownst to her, though, Michael is on medication of his own, for headaches. And he consumes alcohol that evening during his final moments with Liza. When Liza shows up unexpectedly to cook Michael a farewell breakfast, Mrs. Frame tries to prevent Liza from disturbing his rest. Liza forces her way inside. Both women go to Michael's bedroom, only to find him unconscious and unresponsive. When Jack, Michael's friend and superior, comes and sees his corpse being taken to the mortuary, Liza explains, "That crazy woman killed him." Mrs. Frame finally "lets Michael go" as she imagines herself standing on the ocean shore and waving to him while he rows himself further and further away from her. The only sense of closure she can have.—Daryl Malarry Davidson
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