Treading Water

Alison left South Africa to pursue a scholarship at university in Texas and subsequently settled there. Now her life is shattered, not only by her husband's infidelity, but by a fall that leaves her wheelchair-bound.

Feeling incapable of caring for her young children, she appeals to her half-sister, Bridget, for help. Raising families on different continents, the sisters have drifted apart.

Bridget abandons her own holiday to travel to Dallas. Initially, mundane activities become daily battl...