Ribbon in the Snow

For Barbara Monroe the daughter of an abusive alcoholic mother growing up in a rural Ontario town is anything but normal. When she is eleven she takes part in a shameful act that sets in motion a train of guilt and violence that will end in murder.<p> As a self-loathing teenager she is thrown out of her family home for assaulting her mother. She flees to Toronto where she dreams of beginning a glamorous new life.<p> After a disastrous start Barbara finds safety in the gay world of 1960's Toronto. Blossoming into a flamboyant beauty she struggles with her assertive and ambiguous sexuality.<p> Forever seeking forgiveness Barbara concludes that killing is easy but forgetting is difficult indeed.