Loyalties

Lily and her three youngest children join her husband David Sutton, a doctor in an isolated northern Alberta town. Their eleven-year-old son arrives later from boarding school. David conceals a dark secret which caused the family to leave England without telling anybody. They befriend a neighbor Rosanne, who throws out her boyfriend after he beats her up in a bar. Lily, who is very English and out of place in the town, hires the half-Native Rosanne as a housekeeper, and eventually the two women become good friends, until the secret emerges again.

Director: Anne Wheeler

Cast: Kenneth Welsh, Tantoo Cardinal, Susan Wooldridge, Vera Marin, Diane Debassige, Tom Jackson, Christopher Barrington-Leigh, Meredith Rimmer

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