A Clear Eye

It's 1947 and twelve-year-old Callie lives on a primitive, isolated homestead in northern British Columbia. Her domineering mother, Lillian, insists that her daughter's sole purpose in life is to be a dutiful wife and mother, and her father, Lewis, a veteran haunted by his experience of war, refuses to interfere. Callie dreams of becoming a botanist, an ambition that combines her deep love of nature with her hunger for truth. Her innocence, fostered by isolation and her mother's determination to force Callie into the outdated mold of Lillian's own pre-war youth, is the fateful catalyst of a family feud that tests all Callie's growing strength as she struggles for the freedom to be herself.