Just There

In 1994, William Harrington’s autistic and cognitively disabled cousin is 45 years old – no longer the little blond-haired girl he used to see playing with her dolls across the street – and at 50, he is no longer the little boy who wondered why she was different. Frankie Lou remains in her childhood home, alone, after the death of her parents. Beset with questions, William is sure of one thing; he doesn’t want Frankie Lou to live a hermit-like existence. Just There chronicles the sometimes humorous and sometimes baffling journey traveled by William and his wife, Maija, and William’s extended family as they attempt to introduce Frankie Lou to a new life.