The Wreck Behind Us is inspired by the true story of the 1969 automobile accident that claimed the life of a 39-year old actress, wife, and mother.
On the morning of June 3rd, Evelyn Beckett was the star of a top-rated daytime drama, she was fielding offers from Hollywood, and she was the proud mother of three "clever little rascals," as she liked to call them. She was on top of the world. By midnight she would be dead, her family changed forever.