Canary Season

Its 1980 Malin is fatherless angry and in trouble At 20 hes spent a year in jail for assaulting a lover of Lily his mother In her desk he finds a soldiers photograph and assumes hes found his father He confronts the man now a teacher and gets nowhere At home again he mocks his mother Finally she tells him her grim story from the year before his birth We see a peoples court where Lilys parents seek justice for their grandchild to be We follow Lily to a prison camp to the city where shes told to inform on the only person whos been kind to an asylum and finally to her current poverty and loneliness How will Malin respond to these revelations