The Most

Virgil Beckett is an insurance salesman – he isn’t particularly happy in his job but he fulfils the role, playing golf with the partners, drinking in the bar, chasing the women. Kathleen Beckett was once a promising tennis star, with a key shot up her sleeve called ‘The Most’- now she is a mother and homemaker. Somehow these two, who have been together since college, have fallen into the gender roles expected of them – that prescribed suburban dream they have been sold as something to covet, something that will fulfil their lives.

But on this unseasonably warm, early November Sunday, Kathleen wakes up and decides that she will not be accompanying her family to church. No, she feels like a swim. She unearths her old, red bathing suit and descends into the apartment complex pool no other resident uses. And she doesn’t want to come out.