a mask to overwrite a person

The screen-target here is the mask alone: a "full-head pull-on mask" of a "former celluloid sex goddess" that a foster father lugs onto a catatonic girl's head to disguise her, in the dark, into the object of his fantasy — concealment deployed inside a household to overwrite an identity rather than protect one. Its counter-image is the adopted daughter's nightly craft of erasure: she creeps over to "remove the rubber Raquel Welch mask and replace it in a bedside drawer," tidying the scene so the mother "wouldn't come in in the A.M. and... put two and two together" — a victim managing evidence, hiding the abuse the way an operative sanitizes a site. (The abuse-trauma, the AA etiology-as-Excuse frame, and the body are addiction-recovery's / family's / disability-deformity's; taken here only as the mask-as-concealment-object and its cover-up.)