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(In French, with English subtitles) Why does Elza insist on defying her mother and going to Guadeloupe to seek out her father, who abandoned her in her childhood?  Why does Elza, who has just graduated from college, the first in her family to do so, the pride of her hard-working mother, do this to her family?  Her mother tries to convince her that this man never cared for her.  It doesn’t matter.  Elza wants to find out who her father is, what sort of man he is, and most of all, if he will show fatherly love to her, which she so ardently craves.  But once in Guadeloupe, she finds a more complicated situation.  Her father is wealthy, married to a white woman, with mixed-raced adult children.  He lives within a firmly established place in his society, and any intrusion of a dark-skinned love child would be an embarrassment at best, a social disaster at worst.  Elza, without her father knowing who she really is, maneuvers her way into the family as the new nanny for his little granddaughter.  Between nanny and child, anyway, there is instant connection and love all around.  This is a story, after all, about connection, something so lacking in this household and so very much needed.  Elza may just be able to provide the stitches to hold this crazy quilt together.

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