A Way To Escape

This is the story of the Tomlinson family's journey in Kingston Jamaica between the 1950s and 1970s. The Tomlinson family's dream becomes reality when they move from the inner city to a middle class neighbourhood in East Kingston. But their dream is short-lived. Arthur the patriach and an alcoholic in a drunken fury one night orders his wife Rose to leave the house. Rose a work-from-home dressmaker leaves everything behind and with her four children. the youngest still a toddler flee to her mother Mari 'Granny'. The six of them share Granny's one-room quarters for months.Rose finds work and they move from one tenement yard to another settling on a rented house for all of them. By this time Arthur's life spirals as he becomes more dependent on white rum. He loses his job as a fireman then the family home and takes refuge in a room upstairs his favourite bar. Rose continues to seek a better life. On an invitation letter she goes to Toronto Canada. She remains there after attaining work as a live-in domestic leaving the children with their grandmother. Granny's love however is not enough to restrain the teenagers. Marcy the youngest has a boyfriend who is taking her down a path of drugs and staying out late. Will Rose ever return to save her children from a life of of waywardness? Or is the Tomlinson family destined to a doomed life?