Geronimo1967
This is quite a chilling short drama that follows a young Irish immigrant family as they struggle with their first winter in Canada. With her husband having to work elsewhere, it falls to a mother to keep her daughter and younger son from the bitterness of the climate. Its a constant cycle of chopping wood and breaking the ice to provide water and that, in the face of the constantly sub-zero temperatures, ultimately takes its toll leaving the youngsters to fend for themselves. Can they survive the bleak conditions until their dad returns, though? Its quite a touching story of survival against the elements with two young actors delivering quite poignantly as the older (Sharon ONeill) has to keep her increasingly dejected sibling (Eric Patric...