Eighty-two-year-old Cal Brenneman is dying.  As he lies  in  his  hospital bed, his mind wanders in and out of the past,  reliving the events that  changed  not  only  his life but the lives of his family – a  death in a icy creek, his first love in WWII England, and a violent 1980 morning in the Rocky  Mountains of Colorado where Cal does something that even twenty years later his children find difficult to discuss.

 

Shadowing Cal’s life is the story of Emily Campbell, a Scottish girl whose lover dies in Cal’s ambulance on a Salisbury  landing  strip  during  WWII.  Just before dying, RAF pilot Connor  McLaughlin hands Cal a photo  of  Emily and pleads with him to return a tobacco  pipe to her that  had once  belonged  to her dead  father.  The  return of the  pipe  sets in motion a chain of events that  culminates in a deathbed  visit by a millionaire claiming to be Cal’s son.

 

 

BLINK ONCE TO SPREAD SNOW  is  a  moving story that  resonates  with the spirit of  family and the consequences  of  love, loss,  and  betrayal, a story of how  Cal Brenneman  during the last  few  minutes of his life  blinks  once and  spreads  snow one last time.