Barrel Children

Title:
 BARREL CHILDREN 
 
Director:
 Cara E. Weir
 
Duration/Date:
  24 min /2006
 
Actors:
    
Genre:
 Documentary
 
Country:
 U.S/Trinidad & Tobago
 
Synopsis:
 A moving and intimate documentary about the effects of migration on three 
children left behind in Trinidad while their mother works to improve their 
material lives by looking after another family's children in the U.S. The 
barrels of presents she sends them do not replace her physical presence and 
love that they've been denied for eleven years. Their reunion is imminent, 
but the price for the children is to surrender their tranquil, rural lives 
in Trinidad for the grim urban streets of Boston.