My mother’s daughterPerdita Felicien2020

In 1974, teenage Catherine is determined and tenacious, but she’s also pregnant with her second child and just scraping by in St. Lucia. When she meets a wealthy white Canadian family vacationing on the island, she knows it’s her chance. They ask her to come to Canada to be their nanny and she accepts. This was the beginning of Caherine’s new life: a life of opportunity, yet also of suffering. Within a few years, she would find herself pregnant a third time, this time in her new country with no family to support her, and this time, with Perdita. Together, in the years to come, mother and daughter would experience racism, domestic abuse, and even homelessness, but Catherine’s will would always pull them through. As Perdita grew and began to discover her preternatural gifts, she was edged onward by her mother’s love, grit, and faith…