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Sandie's Story
Wed, Dec 31, 1969
  • S1.E1
  • Sandie's Story
This is the story of Reginald Blanton, death row inmate, and his British fiancee Sandie.

Sandie, 45, was diagnosed with cancer at age 4 and not declared cancer free until age 27. She is the single mother of two children and believes everyone deserves to be treated as if they matter, no matter who they are. She thinks it's important for death row prisoners to have friends

Reginald is 28. He has been on death row in Texas, in the United States, since age 18, for murdering a man during a robbery. He has maintained his innocence for the entirety of his imprisonment.

Although Sandie travels to the United States to visit Reginald, most of their relationship is conducted through written correspondence. As the episode starts we learn Reginald and Sandie have only shared four previous in-person visits. They have never been allowed a visit where they touch. They can only see each other through glass and speak using the phone in the visiting cubicles.

Sandie and Reginald's mother have developed their own close relationship during the time Reginald and Sandie have been together.

Sandie believes Reginald is innocent of the crime he has been jailed for. His family does as well. Although he is on death row, they are all hoping for a reversal of his sentence.

Sandie and Reginald are hoping to marry but Sandie is still married, to another inmate. Will her divorce come through in time to marry Reginald? Will Reginald's appeal be granted? Will he be granted a stay of execution and be able to marry Sandie?
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Michaela's Story
Sat, Jun 19, 2010
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  • Michaela's Story
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Sandie's Story

Wed, Dec 31, 1969
This is the story of Reginald Blanton, death row inmate, and his British fiancee Sandie.

Sandie, 45, was diagnosed with cancer at age 4 and not declared cancer free until age 27. She is the single mother of two children and believes everyone deserves to be treated as if they matter, no matter who they are. She thinks it's important for death row prisoners to have friends

Reginald is 28. He has been on death row in Texas, in the United States, since age 18, for murdering a man during a robbery. He has maintained his innocence for the entirety of his imprisonment.

Although Sandie travels to the United States to visit Reginald, most of their relationship is conducted through written correspondence. As the episode starts we learn Reginald and Sandie have only shared four previous in-person visits. They have never been allowed a visit where they touch. They can only see each other through glass and speak using the phone in the visiting cubicles.

Sandie and Reginald's mother have developed their own close relationship during the time Reginald and Sandie have been together.

Sandie believes Reginald is innocent of the crime he has been jailed for. His family does as well. Although he is on death row, they are all hoping for a reversal of his sentence.

Sandie and Reginald are hoping to marry but Sandie is still married, to another inmate. Will her divorce come through in time to marry Reginald? Will Reginald's appeal be granted? Will he be granted a stay of execution and be able to marry Sandie?
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The Romanian penitentiary system allows, from 2006, the marriage of people sentenced to serve time in prison. Most of the inmates cultivate the pre-existing relationships with the concubines or partners who live outside the prison walls. Though, there is a special category, of those who find a life partner during their time in prison. VISITING ROOM follows the stories of some prisoners found in different penitentiaries across the country, who have found their life partner during their sentence time. The one is either a person from outside, or as them, a person who is serving time in prison. Our intention was to talk to the people found in the special situation of being deprived of freedom, to whom love becomes a substitute for freedom and represents maybe their only hope for a better future. Adi and Ana started their relationship after Adi had seen her in a photo received by his cell mate. It was enough to start a long course of letters, forced meetings in which they sue each other for fictive reasons. The legal system must take the allegations seriously and try to prove them. Mihai has seen Eva on TV and insisted to meet her; they told each other their life stories and ended up confessing their love and planning to get married without ever seeing each other face to face. Cristina and Constantin Baron have been for the past two years in a tumultuous relationship. They met in prison at a show, got married, fought through letters and were close to a divorce, although they are detained in different penitentiaries and only met for their conjugal visits. The movie is built as a chain of interviews in which different couples confess their love stories, re-confirm their love and expose their plans for the future. Without the hope of finding the answer, VISITING ROOM tries to ask one question. What makes two people who have never seen each other, to write in a letter: I love you very much. You are my life!

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