Cake

Several years after surviving a car accident that killed her son former Los Angeles defense attorney Claire Bennett is left physically and emotionally disabled and heavily scarred as she struggles to cope with chronic pain Claire is hostile to most people but manipulative and sweet to her pain management doctor who prescribes her the pain medication she needs to survive Claires husband Jason has finally left her but shes assisted by her devoted housekeeper Silvana who has become both caretaker and chauffeur and who selflessly looks after all of Claires needs Because of the accident Claire refuses to sit up in the car and lies down while being driven everywhere