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In
1979, two young women
in different parts of the country find themselves facing the
same sad circumstance; each is unexpectedly pregnant. For
the sake of her life-plans, twenty-two-year-old Anna chooses
an abortion, while sixteen-year-old Cerise, lonely, awkward,
and without Anna’s firm sense of the future, decides
to have a baby. As Anna goes on to find deep satisfaction
in her career as a fine art photographer and a college professor,
and—later—as a mother, Cerise takes unanticipated
pleasure in raising her daughter, even as she struggles daily
to make ends meet.
When
Anna’s husband loses his job, and tragedy robs Cerise
of a young son, Anna and Cerise meet and forge an unexpected
friendship which ends up affecting each of them in profound—and
profoundly moving—ways.
Windfalls
is a courageous and compassionate examination of the challenges
of contemporary motherhood, as well as a celebration of the
potential for growth and transformation that parenting, art,
and human relationships can offer.
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