This drama, set in Greece, is about a mother (played by Kate Nelligan) and her family caught up in Greece’s civil war in the late 1940s. At one point in the story, Nelligan is forced to burn her oldest daughter Olga (Lisa Rose) with a hot poker on her ankle to temporarily cripple her, so she won’t be conscripted into the army. She does a lot of agonizing and crying about it afterward, mourning that she was forced to torture her own child to save her from being taken away.
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