In Manitoba, Hagar Shipley is nearing 90. She has little, she tells us, but her memories. Over several weeks...
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The Stone Angel
In Manitoba, Hagar Shipley is nearing 90. She has little, she tells us, but her memories. Over several weeks, during which she runs away from her son and daughter-in-law who want to place her in a nursing home, returning to the small town where she grew up and the now-derelict farmhouse where she was married and raised two sons, we follow Hagar in the present and in memories that trace her childhood, marriage in defiance of her father, and later losses. She's fiercely even foolishly proud. Can she! make peace with anyone she loves, or is she left to rage against the dying of the light? Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
The witty, irascible and fiercely proud Hagar Shipley escapes from home when her son Marvin and daughter in law Doris tell her she must move into nursing care. She sets out on a journey to reconcile herself to a tumultuous past. Through her memories, we come to know her as the passionate and rebellious bride in a remote prairie town whose proud father disowns her when she marries the "wrong sort". Struggling to get to the safe haven of an abandoned house she remembers near the ocean, memories take her in and out of the present. We experience with her the defining moments, hidden passions and characters of her past - her affluent but cold and demanding father; her husband Bram Shipley, a man who unleashes her passion for love and life, yet refuses to meet the rigid social standards she is driven by; and the childre! n she bears, sons whose future becomes ruled by the past. Whil! e hiding in the dilapidated house, she meets a young man, Leo, who unwittingly causes Hagar to face her deepest secrets. Written by Anon
Genres: Drama
Release year: 2007
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