Home Before Dark

Its 1963 in rural Massachusetts and Nora James has the usual worries of an eleven yearold girllipstick first crushes staying out of trouble at schoolnot easy when your teacher is the elderly Sister Concilia And even harder when your parents are struggling to heal from an almost unbearable loss Then tragedy strikes another Massachusetts family the Kennedys and shatters the fragile bonds holding the James family together Nora sent to live with her brittle Aunt Rose soon learns who she is what she wants and what she must do to achieve it She makes a decision that is both cruel and courageous Noras choice unlocks the way to what amounts to the rescue of her family Maureen Foley writerdirector of the film