Ilsa is a young girl with a gift. She also just lost her parents in a house fire . The family moved from Europe to America and isolate themselves. They practiced a form of telepathic communication. When the townspeople rescue Ilsa they have no understanding of why she can't communicate and by the time the people who knew her parents could tell them Ilsa has already been subjected to bullying school teacher who's determined to break Ilsa and make her conform.
The woman who wants to keep Ilsa wants her to replace her dead daughter. The husband seems indifferent. The people who were part of the same group come to claim Ilsa give up when Ilsa starts screaming her name and her gift is ruined . The departing couple discuss it and the wife says Ilsa is loved now she was just an experiment to her biological parents! What a way to excuse everything done to Ilsa .
We never had that information and it felt tacked on .
Ann Jillian gives a strong performance of the sensitive Ilsa especially considering how little she speaks. It does take up the episode slightly.
The woman who wants to keep Ilsa wants her to replace her dead daughter. The husband seems indifferent. The people who were part of the same group come to claim Ilsa give up when Ilsa starts screaming her name and her gift is ruined . The departing couple discuss it and the wife says Ilsa is loved now she was just an experiment to her biological parents! What a way to excuse everything done to Ilsa .
We never had that information and it felt tacked on .
Ann Jillian gives a strong performance of the sensitive Ilsa especially considering how little she speaks. It does take up the episode slightly.