Guttaperc

Eric is a tenyearold boy left with his grandparents while his parents travel to America He is unimpressed by their modest but hardly primitive country home disgusted and disheartened by their unpalatable fare So begins Guttaperc a film by Barbadosborn producerdirector Andrew Millington But the Caribbean world Eric finds himself in is not as simple as he thought Indeed it is one caught in a struggle represented by the two figures that dominate his life his grandfather played by Clairmonte Taitt a local supplier of construction materials and Sister Pam Leonie Forbes an elderly woman with her feet and gnarled cane firmly planted in the past