Hidden

by Robin Wood

Lori, a young mother, struggles for life after years of a mysterious illness. During what appeared to be her last hospital stay before leaving mortality, Joan, her assigned nurse for the night, finds Lori crying out with all the ability of her physically exhausted body, No, not the children, not the children, please, not the children! Joan is quite taken back as she remembers having seen this identical scene two years before. Her own daughter, Bonnie, had cried out in this very same way before she died of an equally mysterious illness. Shocked at the unexplainable similarity, the two women resolve to step out of the norm and discover whats really happening. The truths that unfolded would have been impossible to believe had they not found in the events that followed answers to situations that, against all reason, could have had no other explanation. They stumbled across knowledge of a society hidden from detection. An organized group of people that could enslave, use, and then discard any person they targeted. Lori was being discarded. If she died in a hospital in some normal way, the truth of her slavery would never be disclosed. Nothing short of ready this story is capable of describing the life of a person targeted by this society.

138 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 4, 2010

About the author

Robert Paul Wood, known as Robin Wood, was an English film critic and educator who lived in Canada for much of his life. He wrote books on the works of Alfred Hitchcock, Howard Hawks, Satyajit Ray, Ingmar Bergman, Michelangelo Antonioni, and Arthur Penn. Wood was a longtime member - and co-founder, along with other colleagues at Toronto's York University - of the editorial collective which publishes CineACTION!, a film theory magazine. Wood was also York professor emeritus of film.[2]

Robin Wood was a founding editor of CineAction! and author of numerous influential works, including new editions published by Wayne State University Press of Personal Views: Explorations in Film (2006), Howard Hawks (2006), Ingmar Bergman (2013), Arthur Penn (2014) and The Apu Trilogy (2016). He was professor emeritus at York University, Toronto, and the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies.