From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.

It's The Treatment.

I'm Elvis Mitchell.

If you saw the film Honeyboy, directed by my guest, writer, director, Alrell, you know that she has, I think, an interesting ability to chart the emotional evolution of characters.

Certainly we can see that in her astonishing documentary, Bombay Beach.

Her newest project for Apple TV Plus is the adaptation of Lady in the Lake, the Laura Lipman novel.

She has directed all the episodes and written a few.

And Alma, first I will ask you to explain because it's fairly complicated to our listeners what this piece is about.

Really, it's about two women that after a girl gone missing, an 11-year-old gone missing,

their life kind of gets set on a collision course, if you may.

And one of them is a Jewish housewife played by Natalie Portman.

And the other one is a black woman, a mother, juggling a few jobs and responsibilities,

and played by Emmy-nominated Moses Ingram.

Yeah, it's a murder mystery that is based on Laura Lipman's best-selling book, Lady in the Lake,

and she wrote it.

It was inspired by two true murders that happened in Baltimore in the 60s.

Yeah, we should say, too, that the mini-series itself has set,

most of it set in 1966, we should say.

And there's a line early in the book that, for me, almost feels like you use this kind of a theme where the narrative says there were too many bodies and too many voices.

And that's going on here because there's a lot of complexity because there's so many people.

But every character is a part of this. And we introduce the

characters so often through music in interesting ways. And there's a character named Dora,

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