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.
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