Looking down from the roof you see a burning crow. A constant reminder of how unexpected life is. How in one moment you can be content and in the next, everything you know and love is gone. In that one instant, you lost everything. And nothing will prepare you for that day, not faith, not religion, nothing.
You hear the wind whispering something in your hear. You can fainltly hear it. It tells you the story of the man down there and his lost love. The Crow was written by James O'Barr, created by ink and paper. Yet it has touched our lives in some special way. The story is about Eric and Shelly's undying love for each other, a love so strong that it transends death, time and fate itself. It's about eternal love and hope, not about revenge. The Crow is a love letter, the most beautiful love letter ever written. We all have someone in our lives that we lost in someway, and we never got the chance to tell them that they were special. That they did count. We all have someone like that in our lives. And when they're lost, we feel the the most betrayed and alone. Even in our darkest hour, where we find ourselves alone, there is always hope, hope that the one that we love will be at the end of our journey.
The story starts on Devil's Night, the night before Halloween, the night before Eric and Shelly were to be married. Top Dollar sent his men to straighten things out with Shelly ( she didn't want to move from the building) T-Bird, Tin-tin, and Skank barged into the apartment, brutalized Shelly, and when Eric came home, they shot him and threw him out of the window. Shelly dies 30 hours later. Exactly one year later, Eric is reserrected, and seeks his revenge and vengence on those to killed him and his love, Shelly. The Crow is the avatar, the guide that will help him in his journey. He claims his vengence on his killers. And at the end, he is re-united with his eternal love, Shelly. Where they have gone, only they know. They are in a place where only they know, a place that will never be known to the living. Sarah knows that Shelly and Eric are together, and is given Shelly's wedding ring and a reminder of them. The Crow flies off, leaving the land of the living to us, and searches for the lost soul seeking peace.