The Grace Of Brigands

Description :

Sixteen year old Maria Cristina Vaatonen's cloistered life undergoes a sea change once she becomes the flatmate at Joanne , a young freewheeling ex-junkie. Marie Cristina escapes from a suffocating small - town existence in the Great Canadian North to 1970s sunny, palm-fronded California dreaming libertarian dreams. Very soon she allows herself to ne seduced by Rafeal Claramunt, a Nobel - aspiring author long resting on his laurels. She meets his strapping taciturn taxi driver improbably named Judy Garland., and aquires a she-cat named Jean-Luc Gobard, It takes one phone call to shatter the equilibrium of this hard-learned life. Will Maria Cristina be able to withstand the dead weight of guilt the caller's voice arouses, or will the past exact its price?