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Rebecca Blake, the attractive woman one sees at the beginning of this made for television movie, is having a hard time at her local super market where she collapses after she sees a young child , who obviously is a reminder of someone she knows. One realizes right away this woman has no recollection and no memory of who she is, or where she came from. Rebecca is happily married to Joe, a good man that clearly adores her.

When she meets by chance someone on the street who greets her as Abby, she tells the woman she must have made a mistake, but that triggers in her mind a doubt. She goes back to this lady, who tells her how she met her and the area of California she was from. Rebecca pleads with Joe to let her go to unravel the mystery and all the tangled web in her mind.

Harry Winer directed this story that supposedly is based on a true story, as most television movies are. The story is greatly helped by the heartfelt performances of the principals. Jane Seymour is Rebecca, the woman who lost her life through no choice of her own. Bruce Davison is Chase, her former husband who is the key player in what happened to Abby/Rebecca. David Keith is the sheriff of the small California town where Abby finds the missing pieces of her past. A. Martinez plays Joe, the new man in Abby's life.

The film was totally shot in the town of Fillmore, California, which is the center of the orange growing industry and offers a magnificent setting for the story. Since it's a melodrama, prepare the Kleenex, but the film is worth watching thanks to what director Winer did with this story.

I agree that Jane Seymour's now-mature beauty isn't shown to best advantage in this piece, and her distinctive crooked mouth is sometimes allowed to look like an actual distortion. It's agreeable to find that the plot isn't quite predictable, and one really can't help staying with the story to see the mystery solved, and (one hopes) all resolved. What did he do? Why did he do it? It's hard to say whether all questions are answered... I had difficulty with the chronology, since it's mentioned that Abbie married very young-- then one looks at the ages of the children and at Jane and ex-hubby and things don't quite add up, but really, one can just ignore that and go with the premise. It was quite needless, though, that when Abbie/Rebecca and her daughter are having a special moment finding some 'forget-me-nots', the flowers are obviously lobelia. Watch and see!

I love this movie! I couldn't stop watching it. I wanted to see it to the end with out and interruptions. Rebecca loved her kids so much and her ex-husband made it to where she couldn't remember who she was. Her new husband loves her so much that he was scared that he was going to lose her when she went to find out what happened in her past that gave the scar on her forehead. When she was stopped by a lady and called her Abbie and asked if she got her kids back she had to find out what had happened to her. She went to her old town that the lady told her that she used to live in and remembered some of things that happened to her gradually. The more time she spent their the more she started remembering. This movie just kept getting better and you couldn't predict what would happen next.Just watch and see how great this movie really is! You wont be able to stop watching it!! You will want to keep watching it to see what will happen next!

... This Movie is made for sensitive individuals who have a vulnerable heart! This story is deep in that it could happen to many ... !! Money, Power, Control are consistent attributes of Controlling People...!!! I recommend this Movie to anyone who is sensitive to the realities that impact many / most of us in life on this earth!! ... ]= It is Not for the faint of heart !! It is Educational indeed !!

Jane Seymour is always a great actress much better than the average TV movie actress. The story is involving and doesn't waste time. An amnesiac for 8 years is recognised by an old friend. She then returns to her town and solves the mystery of why she left her kids. It's quite touching as she reconnects with her kids and things are well explained. Bruce Davison is good as the ex husband and David Keith as the sheriff.