The reconstruction

Margaret, a sculptor, has been hired by a museum to build a life-sized model of "Lucy," mankind's ancestral link to the primate world. Such an opportunity couldn't have come at a more fortuitous time. Margaret's life is in disarray: Her strained, loveless marriage has just ended, her finances are in a mess, and, to top it all, the dentist announces that she needs complicated and expensive dental work. Her sense that she is withering away spiritually and emotionally, and now the horrifying feeling that her physical self is also decaying, plunge her deeper and deeper into sleep and despair. The…