The Shell Seekers (2007)
Genre : Drama
Runtime : 2H 54M
Director : Piers Haggard
Writer : Brian Finch
Synopsis
Penelope Keeling, a sixty-four-year-old daughter of a famous artist, reflects on her life, and the fate and choices that defined it, when she arrives in the Mediterranean to stay with her headstrong daughter. Shifting through time, and falling into place like the pieces of a jigsaw, the truth of Penelope's rich, heartbreaking and surprising life unfolds.
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