Editing Boxing Helena (section)

==Plot==
Nick Cavanaugh, an [[Atlanta, Georgia|Atlanta]] surgeon, begins moving into his recently deceased mother's lavish home with his girlfriend, Anne. However, he remains fixated on his neighbor Helena — a beautiful but shrewish woman with whom he had one intimate experience — although she harbors disdain for him. Nick and Anne host a [[housewarming party]] and Nick invites Helena, who leaves early with Nick's friend Russell much to his dismay. Anne leaves Nick after realizing his obsession with Helena. Helena leaves her address book at Nick's house and reluctantly agrees to return the next day to retrieve it.

After Helena suffers a [[Gustilo open fracture classification|high-grade tibial fracture]] in a [[hit-and-run]] accident as she attempts to leave on foot, Nick kidnaps her and covertly provides her with illicit medical care in the confines of his home. He goes to the extreme of [[amputating]] both her legs. Later, following her attempt to choke him, Nick goes even further by amputating her arms above the elbow as a means of keeping her under his control. Despite Helena being the victim of Nick's kidnapping and mutilation, she dominates the dialogue with constant ridicule of his shortcomings and continues rejecting his affections despite being dependent on him for care. She begrudgingly becomes calmer and more accepting of Nick until the unexpected arrival of her boyfriend Ray, who has been searching for the missing Helena, which escalates into a violent altercation that ends with Ray threatening to shoot Nick with a pistol. Although Ray leaves after pleas from Helena, Nick is crushed by a falling [[Venus de Milo|Venus statue]].

However, it is revealed that Nick's kidnapping of Helena is a vivid [[nap]]ping dream that Nick is having while waiting at the hospital for Helena to recover from [[emergency surgery]]. In reality, he had called the [[ambulance]] and sought proper medical help for her after the accident.

Later at home in bed with Anne, Nick wakes from a [[nightmare]], still haunted by his love for Helena.