Emily Watson stars in this drama based upon a 1994 book highlighting some shameful crimes that occurred in the U.K. and Australia from the 1940's through the 1960's.
As many as 130,000 children were removed from orphanages in the U.K. and transplanted to other parts of the Commonwealth, mostly to Australia. The children were told that their mothers had died and the mothers, many of whom were determined to be temporarily "unfit" to parent, when they searched for their children, were told that the kids were placed for adoption in better homes.
Many of the children, once transported to Australia, found themselves enslaved and forced into hard labor and even sexual abuse.
Directed by Ken Loach's son, Jim, this could have been a better film if it were perhaps made as a documentary instead...
