[2] Language of Angels begins in a cave on the edge of a rural North Carolina town, where a young girl once went missing.
Her ghost story morphs into a multi-layered musing on grief, loss, guilt and karma, and the elusive truth behind missing girl's life and death reveals itself one piece at a time.
"Because Iizuka set the structure of Japanese Noh drama, with its ghostly presences and shifting time, against the rural landscape of North Carolina, we likewise juxtapose elements of Japanese drama with clearly drawn characters from a mountain village in the South,".
Hidden beneath the scary, mysterious exterior, Language of Angels is ultimately a touching and deeply heartfelt play.
As the surviving friends come to terms with their own mortality, they must also face the truth about their childhood and the regret and guilt their mistakes have caused them.
Language of Angels opens with an interview style description of that night from Kendra, Seth and JB.
We get conflicting descriptions of Celie's character- JB calls her wild and dangerous while Seth (her boyfriend at the time) thinks of her as angelic and gentle.
Seth and Kendra both admit to feeling haunted by Celie's spirit, while JB seems to have left that night deep in the recesses of his mind.
There is a moment of love between them, when suddenly we return to present time and Michael is coming on to Danielle, which she rejects completely.
Allison continues to talk to Michael, and describes how she, Danielle and Celie were all very close, how they used to sing in harmony together.
Then Billy takes out his gun and fires at Michael, which immediately sends us into a time warp to the night of Tommy's death.
Danielle also quiets and addresses Tommy's ghost, she tells him she can't remember if she told him how much she loved him that night.
Tommy hushes her and holds her and tells her she must start living life and that she can't be so caught up in that night.
He is haunted by Joline, his girlfriend at the time who died mysteriously in her sleep the same year Celie was killed.
Finally, Danielle hears a knocking on the door and calls in Celie's ghost, telling her that she has found another song they can sing together.