Cast

Maddie Abshire, Brian Boland, Jim Bowen

Director (s)

Sidney King

Writer (s)

Sidney King

Producer (s)

Sidney King, Daniel Lowe

Synopsis

Pearl Diver is the story of two sisters, how they are haunted by the twenty-year old murder of their mother, and what happens when a farming accident rips away the layers of secrecy and buried trauma surrounding that night

Marian is a young mother who lives in the Mennonite farming community where she grew up, while her younger sister Hannah left the community to pursue a writing career in Chicago .

When Marian's six-year old daughter Rebecca is badly injured in a farming accident, Hannah returns home to help. As the two sisters struggle with the circumstances surrounding Rebecca's accident and how to pay for her medical treatment, their opposing worldviews drive them towards a penultimate confrontation and reconciliation over their shared past, a past that simultaneously divides them yet binds them together.

What they learn is that sometimes the secrets from the past can bring hope for the future

Festival Screenings

Winnipeg International Film Festival Indianapolis International Film Festival

Awards

Heartland Crystal Heart Award Best Narrative Feature Grand Jury Prize