Saving KC

Kelly Allen Chase is brought back to a VA hospital in San Francisco from the jungles of Vietnam after being held captive for three years. He has survived torture, beatings, and gunshots, and now he must endure the lingering psychological and physical consequences. In this strange new world in 1971, his Indian family in Montana is nowhere to be found and are unaware of his return.

In the late sixties, he attended school in Southern California but was ultimately drafted into the US Army after his mother’s death and his father’s subsequent disappearance. His brother, too, walked out of his life prior to Kelly being declared MIA. Rita, his betrothed and the love of his life, was forced to move on, eventually marrying and moving away. Upon his return, Kelly decides not to tell Rita and faces a long rehabilitation. His odds for survival are bleak.

Kelly is moved to a VA hospital in LA, where he obtains a pass to attend a local church. There, he meets a young lady who sings to him and brings out emotions he hasn’t felt for years. That same young songstress struggles with explosive fame, fortune, and a loveless existence that is sowing the seeds of her destruction. They come together for the first time in this unexpected church meeting. Although they go their separate ways, both are left with a memory they cannot shake.

Kelly falls off the deep end, careening toward his expected destruction. Drinking and pain pills consume him. He is only buoyed by his love for music, the memories of his last love, and the beautiful girl in the church… He is lost.

The singer is speeding to her end as she struggles with the pressures of a young life hijacked by the music industry, family, touring, and limited personal life. She devises ways to maintain control and cope with these unsurmountable problems. Such attempts at control may kill her as she continues to accelerate downhill to a bad end… She is lost.

They meet again two years later and rediscover the connections that still exist between them. Although that meeting ends in an explosive confrontation, a spark was ignited that serves to pull them closer together as their lives move forward.

This is a story about lost innocence, war, tragedy, lost love, and found love. Belief in an unknown power that can move and change lives. It offers each of us a look at a power greater than ourselves that exists for us in this life…and maybe the next.