While completing the memoir, "Coffee Shop
God," Thérèse was drawn to the story and voice
of her brother’s killer. She questioned – what was
his life like before the night he shot Steve? What is life like
now in prison, and what will life be like for him once he is released?
Bartholomew’s film, The Final Gift, currently in production,
seeks to answer these questions and to make sense of the tragedy
that will forever link her to the young man who killed her brother.
The film addresses universal ideas of forgiveness and redemption
as well as the larger societal questions – how do we make
peace with crime, support the victims, and restore the offenders?
The Final Gift is currently in production and release
is anticipated in 2011.