She called out Amanda""s name, as Mark struggled to stay awake.Meanwhile, Yvonne relaxed as she soaked in the jacuzzi hot-tub in the gym""s pool area and she entered a destructive dream-state.The film opens on the hottest day of the summer of 1944.The narration reveals that the story takes place in the recent past, at the time of ""Laura""s"" death:I shall never forget the weekend Laura died.David Dreyfuss (Jack Kruschen) mistakes him for a 20th century Don Juan lothario and alcoholic, but he doesn""t dissuade his neighbor""s perception:The way you""re beltin"" that stuff, you must have a pair of cast-iron kidneys.Myers stalked after her as she valiantly fought him off with a fireplace iron poker.She broke a window with the poker, and screamed at the police, who had just arrived: "He""s not dead," but wasn""t heard.Now I""m not gonna lie to ya.He didn""t start off thinkin"" about the hicks and all the wonderful things he was gonna do for ""em.Naw, naw, he""s done it all thinkin"" of number one.But something came to him on the way.How he could do nothin"" for himself without the help of the people.That""s what came to him.And it also came to him with the powerful force of God""s own lightning back in his own county when the school building collapsed ""cause it was built of politics"" rotten brick.