Screenplay
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.
Screenplay
Heidi es una niña huérfana que vive con su tía Detie desde hace varios años, pero, cuando a Detie le ofrecen un trabajo en Frankfurt, no tiene más remedio que llevar a la niña a vivir con su abuelo paterno. Aunque, al principio, el anciano acepta a regañadientes la presencia de la niña, poco a poco le coge cariño, le enseña las costumbres de la vida en las montañas y la anima a entablar amistad con Pedro, un cabrero de once años que vive cerca. Heidi se siente completamente feliz; pero, de repente, aparece la tía Detie: resulta que una niña llamada Clara, condenada a vivir en una silla de ruedas, busca una acompañante de su misma edad. Heidi tiene que despedirse de su abuelo y emprender un largo viaje a la ciudad.
Screenplay
The war in Europe is over, but the one at home has only just begun. The Second World War is ending and throughout Britain, evacuees are returning home to their families - but not the families they remember. Like so many other women, Peggy’s life has been transformed by the war. Living and working with good friends, she is happier than she has been for years. Yet Peggy’s life is not the only one changed by the war. Her daughter, Rusty, has just returned from the U.S., where she has been living as an evacuee for the last five years. After so long abroad, her home in England has become unrecognizable. Just as Peggy begins to restore normal family bonds, her husband returns from the war, damaged and desperate to make everything as it was before. Adapted from the novel by Michelle Magorian, author of Goodnight, Mister Tom, Back Home is the story of a family who struggle to make sense of their new lives in a world irrevocably altered by the far-reaching effects of war.
Adaptation
We're in an English village shortly before Dunkirk. "Mr. Tom" Oakley still broods over the death of his wife and small son while he was away in the navy during WWI, and grief has made him a surly hermit. Now children evacuated from London are overwhelming volunteers to house them. Practically under protest, Mr. Tom takes in a painfully quiet 10-year-old, who gradually reveals big problems.
