Unlike most scripts that are either adapted from a written source or drawn out of a screenwriter's imagination, The Safety Of Objects was inspired by numerous short stories by AM Holmes as well as the real-life suburban experience of American Independent writer/director Rose Troche.

Writer, director, co-producer and co-editor Rose Troche made her directorial debut with the highly acclaimed feature film Go Fish, which was presented at over twenty film festivals, where it took home awards at The Berlin International Film Festival, The Cork Film Festival, The Rimmini Film Festival and was also awarded the IFP Gotharn Award as well as the prestigious GLAAD Media Award. Troche most recently directed the vibrant comedy Bedrooms and Hallways, which won the Audience Award at the London Film Festival.

Rose Troche fell in love with writer AM Homes' critically acclaimed short stories. Recognised a common thread, she was inspired to write a script incorporating them into a single narrative. This proved to be challenging prospect. The seven stories chosen by Troche had different characters, took place at different moments in time, in different settings. Troche not only wanted to merge these characters and story lines into four families, but also into a unified story to entwine their lives.

It took Troche a year and a half to combine the stories into one fluid tale.

"It was like shuffling a deck of cards and every single time I would try to consolidate more and more until it felt like one story rather than a bunch of little disparate stories," says Troche.

When it came to finding producers to help bring her script to life, Troche turned to the two women who had produced her previous films. Christine Vachon of Killer and Dorothy Berwin of InFilm Productions.

After working on Troche's first film, Vachon had wanted to work with her on a bigger project. "Go Fish was an incredibly innovative film, that showed a lot of passion and a lot of moxy," states Vachon. "With very little means the film had real visual panache so I knew that given a bigger budget Rose would grow exponentially."

Producer Dorothy Berwin remembers Troche's desire to adapt Homes' short stories to a screenplay.

"Rose came out with the idea of merging characters and cutting down the story lines and interweaving the whole thing to make it into a proper narrative," recalls Berwin. "It was almost like a mathematical process. She had colour charts and bar codes and different pens and different pieces of paper. She would have cards for each of the characters and all the scenes. And every time she did a new draft she would dismantle the whole thing and put it back together again. It was a very complex piece of scriptwriting. And I think Rose has done an astonishing job."

An example of how two different charac