Confessions of a Florist, written and directed by Frank Patterson, takes place in a small Southern town not far from Atlanta. Rose (played by Leslie France) has bludgeoned her husband Dan (played by Marco Perella) to death with a vase in a fit of rage after seeing him have sex with a slut in her florist shop one night. A traveling salesperson, dealing in used cars, Dan is away from Rose a lot, and he stingily refuses to provide funds so that she can keep up with the bills of her shop. She stashes his body in the cooler, the place where flowers are kept so that they retain their freshness, but cannot bring herself to inform the authorities of her misdeed. Along comes Willyum (played by Wayne DeHart), who has been released from prison after serving a sentence of about eight years for shooting in self-defense the irate husband of a woman with whom he was having extramarital sex. In both cases, the murderers are victims of societal discrimination. Rose recalls that her husband abused her because of her sex, and Willyum believes that his conviction was railroaded because he is African American. Others in the story exhibit unabashed sexist and racist prejudices, with appropriate Southern accents. Willyum comes into the flower shop to buy a bouquet so that he will be accepted by his wife (played by Tonea Stewart), who later rejects his overture and throws the bouquet at him. Willyum then returns to the flower shop with his sad story. Rose, suggesting that he should try again, hires him to help to prepare flowers for the upcoming Valentine’s Day, which is a high point in sales for any florist business. While he is working for her, she confesses that she is a murderer. He urges her to inform the police lest he return to the penitentiary as an accomplice, but she lacks the courage to do so. Meanwhile, her shop is to be foreclosed. The town undertaker, Martinez (played by Bill Bolender), owes her a princely sum that would enable her to avoid foreclosure, but he refuses to help. One day Rose spies a coffin with a trap bottom, realizing that Martinez has been selling the same coffin for years. Taking advantage of her knowledge of his fraud, she coerces him into disposing of her husband’s body. The shop is nevertheless foreclosed. Meanwhile, Willyum finally get his wife to take him back in. In the end, Rose drives out of town, bound presumably for her hometown of Lodi, New Jersey. Confession of a Florist is a story with some similarity to Far from Heaven (2002), in which a white woman and a black man help each other to achieve some authenticity to their lives despite social prejudice. The main difference is that Rose leaves town, while Willyum stays with his wife. MH