The film opens with Annabelle leaving an empty house she and Fred once shared, clutching a small box that holds his ashes and declaring, “I gotta make new memories or the old ones are gonna kill me. … I'm not ready to die.” She hopes to visit countries that were the sites of her and Fred’s favorite movies.
Howard, too, is having trouble moving on from his past.
Gifford told Crosswalk the movie has a simple message for moviegoers: Life isn’t over after tragedy strikes.
“It's different than anything I've ever done before,” Gifford said. “But I felt the Lord's calling on my life to write a movie for people who don't know yet that God loves them.”
The film partially mirrors what Gifford did when her husband, Frank, died in 2015. She moved from Connecticut to Tennessee. Her Connecticut home, she says, was “the most beautiful home I've ever seen in my life,” filled with memories of her husband and children.
“But when nobody's there but me, it's more like a morgue,” she said. “... I knew I had to make a huge move.”
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