Frazer Melville, a passing physicist, falls for what he calls his "sex goddess on wheels", and through Gabrielle becomes embroiled in the Bethany case. Her obsessive drawings of a diving man turn out to prefigure an earthquake in Rio that dislodges the statue of Christ the Redeemer. Bethany craves ECT, the only thing that seems to alleviate her mental suffering, and after each treatment she rants from the Bible, accurately predicting natural catastrophes.
She's screwed up and insecure and probably the worst person to delve into the mind of the poisonous and apparently psychic Bethany Krall. She became a paraplegic after the car accident that killed her lover (and for which she is to blame). Gabrielle Fox is a wheelchair-bound art therapist assigned to work with a teenage matricide in a secure unit near Dover. It's the sort of film that, despite the promise of its premise, falls apart in the final half-hour. Against a backdrop of swirling skies are set some familiar elements, among them an unstable shrink and a demonic child straight out of The Exorcist. L iz Jensen's much-praised seventh novel, a global-warming thriller set in the near future, has the feel of a lushly filled out film script.
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