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Stephanie Banner is twenty years old the night Dakota Shane stands centre level while six bullets band out through the stadium. Five fatalities appear from those photographs, although only four ever go on record. All are women. It happens in Portland, Oregon, at the Rose Garden World. The show is a sellout. Twenty-two thousand seats gone in less than four hours. For the eight days and nights before the concert, a handful of disparate lives intertwine as their world unravels. Their sanity, their associations, their work, their children, the law, and even loss of life hangs in the total amount. Included in this are: the learning-disabled black child from East St. Louis trying to move past having his little sister pass away in his forearms when she and his Momma become collateral damage during a drive-by; the quick-witted black man who, after losing control of his car on his way to visit family in Portland, sees himself duct-taped to a couch, a hostage to a meth-addled lunatic required for a two times homicide; the Latino kid now desperately struggling to rise above his abusive daddy and help his mom and sister move to a better life, while unable to forget about the tremendous guilt he bears over the destiny of the other sister he once experienced; the slash-punk vocalist who manages to credit score her group the best gig of its profession, only to learn she may well not have a band left to play it; the Korean psychiatrist finally confronting how much of her life has slipped by her - just how many years she lost - while focussing on far less considerations; the ex-LAPD detective now doing work for the Portland PD finally facing the ghosts that still linger from enough time of the Rodney King riots - a history that compelled him to drag his family up out of LA; the bitter ex-wife of your disk jockey who still secretly listens to her ex-husband's midnight radio show as she wines herself into a whiskey coma; the out of control daughter having unsafe sex with strangers wanting that being pregnant might draw the interest of parents unable to see past themselves. And then, Dakota Shane: chart-topping superstar with a dark magic formula, trapped in a press and tabloid frenzy filled with rumor, speculation, and is situated. She's off her meds and grappling to find any semblance of herself that might still exist in a identity forged within the last five years by an extremely successful record company's marketing office. Each one of these lives is a tale and the reviews collide with each other like silver balls jumping off bumpers on a pinball machine. But in the end, The Rose Garden World Event is a tale about passion, about bravery, about redemption, about repairing those things on the planet that are fixable and understanding how to live with things that are not - a heartbreaking storyline of tragedy, despair, and damage that still in some way leaves you with a glimmer of trust, love, and wish.
