Lilac Time

Following a fall, Ida is less able to look after herself and her family arrange for her to move into a care home, where suppressed memories of her life in Vienna during the war start to dominate her thoughts. Ida's emerging story begins to impact on her three grown-up children in different ways, but it is Anna, the younger daughter, and the most attentive to her mother, who encourages her to speak about her life as a young wife and mother in Austria. As Anna begins to unravel the events of the past, she takes a trip to Vienna in an attempt to discover what happened to her mother during the darkest days of Nazi occupation. The whole family is stunned by Ida's final revelation.