Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: town has disappeared long, Fact2: Long-term out-migration was caused by draw-down of town 's able-bodied men to wartime draft calls and by demand for industrial workers in war production plants of big cities, Fact3: Watts is determined to outwit son and bossy daughter-in-law, Fact4: son and daughter-in-law track her down with help of local police force, Fact5: local sheriff offers to drive her out to what remains of Bountiful moved by yearning to visit girlhood home
Output (English): The film, set in the postWorld War II 1940s, tells the story of an elderly woman, Carrie Watts Page, who wants to return to her home, the small, rural, agriculturebased town of Bountiful near the Texas Gulf coast between Houston and Corpus Christi, where she grew up, but shes frequently stopped from leaving Houston, Texas by her daughterinlaw and her overprotective son, who will not let her travel alone. Her son and daughterinlaw both know that the town has long since disappeared, due to the Depression. Longterm outmigration was caused by the drawdown of all the towns ablebodied men to the wartime draft calls and by the demand for industrial workers in the war production plants of the big cities. Old Mrs. Watts is determined to outwit her son and bossy daughterinlaw, and sets out to catch a train, only to find that trains dont go to Bountiful anymore. She eventually boards a bus to a town near her childhood home. On the journey, she befriends a girl traveling alone DeMornay and reminisces about her younger years and grieves for her lost relatives. Her son and daughterinlaw eventually track her down, with the help of the local police force. However, Mrs. Watts is determined. The local sheriff, moved by her yearning to visit her girlhood home, offers to drive her out to what remains of Bountiful. The town is deserted, and the few remaining structures are derelict. Mrs. Watts learns that the last occupant of the town, and the woman with whom she had hoped to live, has recently died. She is moved to tears as she surveys her fathers land and the remains of the family home. Having accepted the reality of the current condition of Bountiful and knowing that she has reached her goal of returning there before dying, she is ready to return to Houston when her son and daughterinlaw arrive to drive her home. Having confronted their common history in Bountiful, the three commit to live more peacefully together. They begin their drive back to Houston.