I began this intensely personal experimental personal narrative documentary in 1993 when I was in graduate school and after reading “Trifles” a play about a farm woman. Without ever having held a video camera, I knew I needed to make a film about the women who I grew up around. Five years later, I left grad school without having finished this film. I moved to Virginia to teach, gained many more filmmaking skills, and returned to the Midwest to finish this piece.