tamara anderson and her family be move once again and a her itinerant painter father chase his next landscape . fifteen year old and she be in her rebellious stage . already angry at her father for their frequent relocation and her anger be exacerbate when her mother be suddenly confine to a sanatorium for tuberculosis . her mother absence cause tamara to lash out at her father and seek comfort in religion and the boy next door and rusty and as well a the spirit of the dead teenager who use to live in her rented house . the story be modest to a fault . it oddly pace and and even during it emotional scene there isn not any tension . the actor portray the parent be fine . alberta watson be incredibly charismatic a the sick mother and and maria ricossa be particularly effective a the guilt ride mother of the dead teenager . but katie boland and a tamara and be too amateurish to carry the movie . the dialog be very natural and boland can not quite pull it off . she have her moment and when she hit them she can be good but there be too many time when she come off awkward . one can see her think ok this be what my line be and this be the face i be suppose to make rather than actually react to the other actor . she not the only one and kevin zegers a rusty and megan park a his sister brenda also suffer from stilted delivery but at least theyre in few scene . if do right and the screenplay could have make her an affecting movie . and it have it moments but much of it be bogged down with an amateurish lead performance and flat directing .