She wrote the script before the opioid epidemic had caught the attention of the mainstream media, but notes that it is nonetheless timely in how it illustrates the pervasiveness of addiction.

“That was something that Mel had told me about her mother was that she was actually very beautiful and very charismatic and able to cover up the truth of what was happening at home,” says Morgan.

“One of the interesting things about the opioid crisis is that, unfortunately, if it was only people on the street dying, it really wouldn’t be on the news as much as it is now because there have been middle-class people, people from all classes, affected by this,” she adds. “That’s what started getting it into the news, which is really unfortunate. All that is to say that we don’t know what’s happening behind closed doors and we can never really know.”

For the father character – a playboy who deserts his wife and daughter for extended periods of time – Morgan approached her old friend and former Heartland co-star, Amell.

“The reason I was confident reaching out to him was I know as an actor who is on television playing the same role for many years, we’re often really excited to branch out and to do a little indie project as an excuse just to flex another muscle and try something different, and he was,” says Morgan. “He was excited about it and it was something completely different from Arrow and completely different from the genre he’s used to working in.”

“He was so wonderful,” she adds. “He literally came to our set and then had to immediately go to the Arrow set and work another 15 hours. I was really impressed with him. He’s such a pro.”