Conspiracy of Silence: The Magdalene Laundries
Product Code: CG5000
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Approx. Run Time: 60 min.
Young, impetuous, 16-year-old Rosemarie Healey has been on a collision course with her strict father for a year. At her 16th birthday party, things come to a head. Her father makes good on his threat to send her away but assures her she is going to a "strict" convent school to finish her high-school education. He does not tell her or his wife and younger daughter, Chrissie, that he is abandoning her to the Magdalene Sisters. In a conspiracy of silence even today, the Catholic Church refuses to admit that for the greater part of the 20th century the Magdalene Sisters, an order of nuns in Ireland, misused and abused young women in their laundries.
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