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Milk and Honey -- Film Description:
"Welcome to the dark side of the Canadian multicultural dream. Jo (Josette Simon) is plucked from her poverty-stricken Jamaican village by the lure of big money and guaranteed employment in Canada [...] Forced to leave her son and family behind, Jo finds herself feeling increasingly lonely and frustrated as she toils away for a haughty nouveau riche couple in Toronto. Concerned that she is becoming irrevocably estranged from her son, Jo arranges to have the boy come and visit from Jamaica. [...]"
-- Festival of Festivals


Source:
Festival of Festivals [Programme]. Toronto: Festival of Festivals, 1988. (p. 219)