Edie paints still-life portraits of objects she gathers from around the home. Upon returning home, Rebecca and Edie discover that Eric has returned home from his trip early.Įdie, Rebecca, and Eric attempt to navigate their new living arrangement. Edie continues to look for work and accompanies Rebecca to a concert where they dance in a mosh pit. She attempts to forge a relationship with Akila by helping her with her hair, which Akila does not know how to take care of, but Akila rejects her help. While Eric is away on business, Edie moves into Eric and Rebecca’s home. Afterwards, Edie shares that she has been evicted, and Rebecca invites Edie to stay at their house. Rebecca invites Edie to watch her perform an autopsy. She begins working for a delivery service and unknowingly fulfills an order for Rebecca at the hospital where she works as a medical examiner. Edie struggles to find work and pay her rent after her roommate’s departure, and she is evicted. On her way out, Edie shares a cigarette with her only Black co-worker, Aria, who informs her that she has been given Edie’s job. She confronts her former lover Mark, who denies turning her in she injures herself deliberately in front of him with a sword to try to feel something. The next day at work, Edie is terminated from her job due to her inappropriate sexual contact with her co-workers. Edie receives a voicemail from Rebecca asking to see her again.

He punches Edie after she grants him permission and they have sex in her car. Distressed to see Edie in his home, Eric drives her home. At Eric and Rebecca’s 14th anniversary party, Edie meets Akila, their adopted Black 12-year-old daughter. Edie attempts to run away, but Rebecca soon convinces her to stay and attend a party she is throwing. Frustrated, Eric gives in to his desire and has sex with Edie in his home.Īfter not hearing from Eric for 10 days, Edie sneaks into Eric’s house and is confronted by Rebecca. Eric and Edie continue to see each other without having sex to abide by the strict rules Eric’s wife, Rebecca, has set.

Isolated from her peers, Edie indulges in inappropriate and doomed sexual flings with her co-workers. She lives in a vermin-infested apartment with a roommate and struggles to make ends meet. Though she is left unsatisfied, her date with Eric leads her to begin painting again after a two-year hiatus.Įdie works an unfulfilling job in the editorial department of a children’s publishing house. Sexually frustrated and longing for connection, Edie accompanies Eric to Six Flags for their first date. Twenty-three-year-old Edie meets Eric, a 46-year-old White man in an open relationship.

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