THE BASTARD SINGS THE SWEETEST SONG

Christy Garland | Guyana, Canada, Denmark 2012 | 71 Min. | OmeU

Georgetown, Guyana, South America. Muscle is a busy man. He has his eye fixed firmly on the middle class, hoping to pull his extended family up with him. In the meantime, his birds need constant attending, as he ekes out a living raising fighting cocks and songbirds. And heʼs trying, not very successfully, to get his mother Mary off the booze. At 75, Mary has had a number of falls on her frequent stopovers outside the family compound, searching for drink. Mary drinks to forget, in particularly to drown out the night, which she has good reason to dread. Sheʼs still able to recite by heart some of her moving poems, to her family who listen with love and admiration. But her determination to thwart Muscle and his flawed attempts to control her drinking, has led her son to take more drastic action.