Entry 12

Open to watch After The Dance

Goal

After The Dance was a beautifully filmed and told movie about Daisy Asquith, a documentary filmmaker who digs into her own family’s past and yet at times terribly heart breaking.

The 70 minute movie dubs Pam Asquith (Daisy’s mother) first-hand experience of her mother being born out wedlock and given up for adoption. It turns out that Asquith’s grandmother had a sexual encounter with a man in a hay barn after a local dance. Too ashamed to raise the child herself, she ran away to England and gave the baby to nuns — shades of Philomena — who arranged for its adoption by an English couple.

However, I thought to mix it up for this week’s task and alter the past to change the future.

What if Pam’s mother didn’t give her up?

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