The day started with a phone call from Tabitha when she was still about twenty minutes away from us. "Hi David. I thought I should let you know that I need to pee really, really bad. What do you want to do?" It was like pouring gasoline on a flame.

      I told her I would have the camera ready to roll when she arrived, and we'd do a quick movie. She didn't seem sure that she would last out, but she was game. She came onto the property driving quickly, and as soon as she climbed out of her Jeep, she was hopping and squirming. I asked her to do a few things in the garden as I filmed her desperate efforts to hold on. She only got as far as wheeling some dead plants into the woods.

      This short, very informal movie captures Tabitha as herself, no character acting. She really did need to pee badly, and I thought that might be the most desperate I would see her that day. I could not have been more wrong.