The Girl From Cleveland City

In the third and final episode of THE GIRL FROM CLEVELAND CITY trilogy, we begin to connect the proverbial dots of the protagonist's journey. Esti, a Cleveland real estate heir and a mother of two grown sons, begins to unravel as the secrets pierce through of this rust-belt old-school city of many cultures, ethnicities and traditions. Cleveland has always held its own court and the rules that follow. John, the longtime detective enforcing some of those rules, and also a recovered alcoholic, begins to put together the pieces of a crime that took places three decades ago. Is this a case he actually wants to solve?

As the old guard rationalizes its decisions, the new generation reexamines their own lives, facing choices that will either propel them forward into an uncertain but free future, or keep them fully entrenched in the quicksand of their ancestors.

Regardless of generation or situation, the characters in this series pursue their own truths, through negotiations, through sex and even through violence.

EPISODE 3, titled THE IDENTITY PARADE, stems from the British term for police lineup. At its essence, this last narrative asks the old noir question of, "Who done it?"