Sadie, the Least of These

Sadie, recently divorced, with an adult son who is struggling with his own life, enters the workforce as a nurse’s aide at Park View Nursing Home. Third shift is tough, but suits her life until she hears a resident crying and meets the long-time bully of the third shift, John Braddford. John taunts Sadie, informs her that her son is dating his daughter, and convinces her that the crying resident is just confused. Sadie just wants to do her job, but the residents she meets in the quiet, still hours of the night come to mean too much to her to look the other way. Sadie has always taken a back seat to others, always kept her mouth shut and kept out of sight. Can she stand up to the bureaucracy and the bully? Can she overcome her personal fears to at least make life better for those who are forgotten in Park View? In this veritable morass of sadistic abuse and neglect, Sadie struggles to defend the rights and dignities of those vulnerable older persons discarded and forgotten by most of America.