Three Thin Lines to Insanity

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Romantic psychological thriller with a terrifying twist. Tony is a Brit in his early 50s. It is 1982 on the Caribbean island of Margarita. He knows Sylvia has had a troubled past and has delusions caused by a mental disorder. However, he needs her to keep his own sanity, even though she is a danger to him and herself. So what can he do? He is madly in love with this gorgeous 36 year old American woman. He struggles to cope while she bubbles with adorable enthusiasm.Though a carefully constructed narrative delivering tons of humor, it's not all laughs. Things get ugly when she starts to deal cocaine at a beach bar to the tourist clientele. Then her mother dies, sending her and their affair into a tail-spin. Tony seeks help from a psychiatrist who had treated her some years before, and the shocking truth is laid bare: Could Sylvia have killed her own mother?One delusion after another throws Tony down a path of self-destruction until finally he is at his wits end. Revelations surface: Her delusions were spawned from years of horrendous childhood trauma after her father had died when she was just four years old. Sylvia finally loses it completely; is taken to hospital, possibly forever. Tony will never see her again, is now contemplating suicide. He doesn't know it, but he needs a miracle... Can someone deliver?

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