For You Flora

A quiet, sorrowful reckoning across decades, asking patience as it braids past and present into a slow story of harm and repair.

Created by

Sonia Bonspille Boileau

Genres

Drama

Starring

Dominique Pétin, Marco Collin, Virginie Fortin

Overview

For You Flora is the story of a brother and sister of Anishinabe descent who spend their youth in a residential school in the 1960s and who, years later, attempt to make peace with their painful past. From the heartbreaking moment when the Oblates take the two children away from their parents to the events that unite them more than five decades later, this six-episode, one-hour drama miniseries depicts different eras in their lives, unfolding together in each episode to tell the story of how a Quebec Aboriginal family splits apart and manages to repair itself.

How it feels

Melancholic, earnest, dark and warm. Slow-burning and demanding.

About

Trauma, family, identity, grief

Content

Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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