A sentimental and anguished story about love, choices, and consequences.
Family life doesn’t look the same in real life as it did on paper for Sadie Rollins-Lancaster and her husband Theo. Over a decade of marriage and three healthy kids sounds like a dream come true, but when you add her husband’s military tour in Afghanistan along with his haunting PTSD, their home life is far from traditional. Theo struggles with therapy, and his day-to-day life is mostly an effort to make it to tomorrow. The challenge of his disorder erodes their marriage and the couple decides to divorce but stay living under the same roof, hoping to preserve some semblance of stability for the kids. An unexpected encounter with a single dad, however, sends Sadie’s heart aflutter. Always putting her family first, how can she spare the emotional energy to cultivate romance? Especially while she’s still technically married?
Rewrite the Stars is a soul-stirring journey reminiscent of The Bridges of Madison County but with chilling echoes of Regeneration. The portrayal of a soldier returning home with PTSD is both heartbreaking and raw. To watch a once confident man become a potential danger to his own kids tells of a jarring reality that would test any family. The romantic entanglement Sadie ungracefully tries to avoid is organic and innocent, and her efforts to preserve her crumbling homelife feel herculean. While Theo can be hard to love, and Sadie may have run out of patience, their son, Charlie, is a shining star every time he makes an appearance. Earnest and thoughtful, Rewrite the Stars is a sentimental and anguished story about love, choices, and consequences.
