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| - Set 10 years after the events from Flowers in the Attic, in the year 1970 in South Carolina, the surviving Dollanganger children, Cathy, Chris, and Carrie, attend the funeral of Paul Sheffield, a kind doctor who took them in and provided them the means to achieve their dreams. However, still haunted by the death of their younger brother, Cory and the betrayal of their mother, they are unable to move past their memories in the attic, particularly Cathy, who still wonders how a mother could betray her own children.
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| - Set 10 years after the events from Flowers in the Attic, in the year 1970 in South Carolina, the surviving Dollanganger children, Cathy, Chris, and Carrie, attend the funeral of Paul Sheffield, a kind doctor who took them in and provided them the means to achieve their dreams. However, still haunted by the death of their younger brother, Cory and the betrayal of their mother, they are unable to move past their memories in the attic, particularly Cathy, who still wonders how a mother could betray her own children. Meanwhile, back in Virginia, Olivia is bedridden and an invalid due to having suffered a stroke and possibly guilt-ridden for keeping quiet about it, frequently shouts out to the servants that Corrine poisoned her children, but no one believes her. Corrine begins to renovate Foxworth Hall so that she can take full ownership of the mansion, but asks that the attic be sealed. Now blossoming into a beautiful young woman and determined to achieve her dream as a famous ballerina, Cathy partners with a fellow dancer named Julian, who seems genuinely infatuated with her. While she finds him attractive, she dislikes him due to his possessive and abusive behavior. Despite this, she enters in a relationship with him in order to move past her incestuous relationship with Chris, who is still in love with Cathy. Despite their best attempts, Cathy and Chris are unable to forget their feelings for each other; when Cathy is offered and accepts the opportunity to go to New York to be a ballet dancer with Julian, she and Chris give into their passion for each other and make love. Then, it is revealed that Cathy had become pregnant with Chris' child, conceived from their first sexual encounter while they were imprisoned in the attic and miscarried. Cathy tells Chris she must leave in order to give themselves a chance to live a normal life and not repeat their parents' sins. Chris also attempts to move on with his life by entering in a relationship with Sarah, who is the daughter of his boss at the hospital he works at. Cathy goes on to have a love-hate relationship with Julian; she feels love for him when they are performing on stage together but feels hate when they are off stage. Julian, who is frustrated with Cathy's inability to love him, tries to keep her away from her others, except for Carrie, but Cathy doesn't end the relationship due to their dance partnership. Carrie is frequently bullied by her classmates at her boarding school for her small size and carrying a doll (which is the only present she has left of her mother). She asks Cathy if she can come live with her and Julian, which she agrees. During Cathy's performance in "Romeo and Juliet," Chris catches Julian "molesting" Carrie and a violent fight occurs, which ends with Julian storming off and Cathy running after him. During this argument while Julian is driving, Cathy reveals that she is pregnant which distracts Julian and causes them to get into a car accident. Julian is killed instantly, but Cathy and her unborn child are alright. Cathy later gives birth to a boy whom she names Jory and opens up her own ballet school. Carrie attempts to find some form of happiness by entering into a relationship with Alex, a young man who works as a minister whom Carrie met at a session. Alex truly loves Carrie, and he proposes to her, but she is unable to bring herself to answer him. This is because Carrie is still haunted over the loss of her twin and her grandmother's words of evil, and questions herself about becoming a minister's wife. Her negative feelings grow when she runs into Corrine at a charity gathering, who casually denies Carrie being her daughter. Thinking that she is evil and unwanted, Carrie consumes doughnuts heavily-laced with arsenic, the same poison that killed her twin. Cathy and Chris are grief-stricken when they discover Carrie dead and over how she chose to commit suicide. This enrages Cathy into plotting revenge against her mother and grandmother for what they did to her and her siblings and she also plots to seduce her mother's new husband, Bart Winslow, as part of her revenge. Chris is disgusted with her plan and tries to get her stop, but Cathy is determined to make her mother suffer for what they've endured. It doesn't take much to successfully seduce Bart, who is immediately smitten with her, and they begin an affair. Chris eventually proposes to Sarah (under pressure from her father, his supervisor), and she accepts. However, the day before the wedding, Chris admits that he doesn't want to marry Sarah because he wants to be with Cathy. She tells him that she still loves him but they need to move on with their lives. This leads them to share a passionate kiss, which Sarah witnesses. Horrified, she ends her relationship with Chris (who also gets fired from his job at the hospital), and rumors start to spread about the incestuous relationship. With their secret revealed, Chris asks Cathy to come live with him in California so they can start a new life with Jory, but Cathy reveals that she is now pregnant with Bart's child and needs to finish what she started. Chris asks Cathy if she loves Bart, which she says no and she loves Chris. Chris decides to go to Foxworth Hall to confront their mother. On the day of the Christmas party and reopening of Foxworth Hall, they sneak back into the mansion. Cathy finds her grandmother, and takes the moment to vent her anger at Olivia, who tells her that she will always be trapped within the Foxworth family and remain known as the devil's spawn. During the party, Bart makes a toast to Foxworth Hall's restoration and Corrine. Cathy appears on the staircase (wearing the same gown Corrine wore to the Christmas Party twelve years ago) and proceeds to announce her identity and her mother's crimes to the guests. At first, Corrine denies that she has any children and she doesn't know what Cathy is talking about, especially about Cory's death. Bart is suspicious and demands answers, and Olivia refuses to defend Corrine. Olivia orders Corrine to tell the truth and with that, Corrine finally admits everything. However, she insists that she never intended to kill Cory, but only made her children sick so she could sneak them out of the house much to Bart's disgust. Cathy further announces her pregnancy with Bart's child much to his and Corrine's shock. After the guests leave, Corrine confronts Olivia upstairs while Bart talks to Cathy, demanding to know why she seduced him to get back at his wife. In Olivia's bedroom, Corrine blames Olivia for making her put her children in the attic, and Olivia says that is because the children are an abomination. She gives Corrine a trunk with some of her old possessions and Corrine is saddened when she finds the skeleton remains of Cory, under several tissue flowers. When Chris comes in, Corrine suffers a mental breakdown. She mistakes Chris for his father and pleads with him to help her hide Cory's body. As Olivia taunts her, Corrine coldly bids her mother goodbye and sets the room on fire with candles. Chris rushes his mother out of the house and Bart runs back inside to save Olivia but they both die in the fire. Six years later, Cathy and Chris have gotten married and live in California with Jory and Bart Jr under their family name of Dollanganger. Corrine, however was deemed incompetent to stand trial for her crimes and is sent to a mental hospital where she constantly screams out for her 'babies.'
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