Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: film is set in exclusive beach community on Long Island, Fact2: children 's book author and artist Ted Cole lives with Marion and young daughter Long Island, Fact3: couple 's teenaged sons were killed in automobile accident, Fact4: erratic work schedule leaves young assistant to fill time as best, Fact5: Ted is enjoying trysts of his own with local resident Evelyn Vaughn during sketching sessions
Output (English): The film is set in an exclusive beach community on Long Island, where childrens book author and artist Ted Cole Jeff Bridges lives with his wife Marion Kim Basinger and their young daughter Ruth Elle Fanning, who usually is supervised by her nanny Alice. Their home is filled with photographs of the couples teenaged sons, who were killed in an automobile accident; the tragedy left Marion deeply depressed and her marriage in a shambles. The one shared experience that holds the family together is a ritualistic daily viewing of a home gallery of family photographs of the deceased sons. Ted and Marion temporarily separate, each alternately living in the house and in a rented apartment in town. Ted hires Eddie OHare Jon Foster to work as his summer assistant and driver, since his own license was suspended for drunk driving. An aspiring writer, Eddie admires Ted, but he soon discovers the older man is a selfabsorbed womanizer with an erratic work schedule that leaves the young assistant to fill his time as best he can. Eddie and Marion soon engage in a sexual relationship, which seems not to bother Ted, who is enjoying trysts of his own with local resident Evelyn Vaughn Mimi Rogers during sketching sessions at which she serves as his model. When Ruth walks into the room while Eddie and her mother are making love, Ted becomes upset with his wife and advises Eddie he may have to testify about the incident if Ted decides to fight for full custody of the child. Marion eventually leaves Ted and their daughter, taking with her all the photographs and negatives of her dead sons, save one that is being reframed after it was broken, injuring Ruth. Eddie takes the initiative to retrieve the one remaining reframed picture so that Ruth can have at least one partial image of her brothers. Ted reveals to Eddie the story of the car accident that caused his sons deaths. Ted suggests his and Marions drunkenness and Teds failure to remove snow from the rear tail light and turn signal lights likely contributed to their sons deaths. Eddie learns more about what may have contributed to Marions intense despair, mental states, and choice to abandon her remaining child. At the end of the film, Ted does not fully understand why Marion left, and he questions, What kind of mother leaves her daughter? At the end of the story, Ted stops while playing alone in his squash court, looks into the camera with resignation, then lifts the door in the floor and descends.