Life Twice Lost

Louden's life has become uncharacteristically complex. Months after losing his position at a prestigious insurance firm, he has struggled to find new employment. Vehicular automation has reduced the need for private insurance carriers and the responsibility to provide for his family has now fallen to his wife, Melinda. Barraged with insults and frequently abused by her at home, Louden takes leave whenever possible. In a moment's rush, he finds himself in a sterile white room with a laissez-faire veterinarian prescribing a vial of experimental nano-based psychotropic drugs for his anxiety ridden-cat. Desperate for a reprieve from his situation, Louden tests the medication on himself and a swirl of kaleidoscope mirrors splits his reality in two. Divorced and living separately from Melinda, Louden beats himself with bouts of drinking, depression, and self-loathing. He has lost custody of his daughter Lettie and life has broken down to living with a burner roommate, a talking cat and a girlfriend half his age. Echoes of his past haunt him as he attempts to rebuild his life and find solid ground. However, time is running out. He has two weeks until his house is foreclosed on and with an impending custody battle on the horizon, no work, and dwindling hope of a stable life, Louden's world continues to spiral out of control. Waking to his wife the ill-treatment continues. The nightmare is the same as the world changes around him. Ideas of divorce wave in the back of his mind like a mirage. An argument ensues and he finds himself bleeding on the floor. Then, blackness to light. Laying next to him is his girlfriend. Should he take the psychotropics again? Slivers in his palm and dried blood on his forehead from yet another attack. Time to pick up Lettie from school - his only day with her this week. Is she really in the car? At home, a mocking reflection in the mirror. Who is the cat, why is it talking and what lurks in the white van across the street? Married and divorced: Struggling to understand while simultaneously smashing between worlds and colliding with them. The divide between reality and fantasy is now becoming far more evident then he imagines. Life Twice Lost is a naked, shamed and psychedelic look at the life being drained out of a man by an abusive marriage and an abrupt divorce, while fighting and often failing to keep his teenage daughter safe.