Мартин Сиксмит

Родившую в 1952 году в Ирландии девочку-подростка из рабочего класса Филомену Ли отправили в женский монастырь в графстве Лимерик, где за ней ухаживали как за падшей женщиной, а ее сына спустя три года отдали на усыновление в Америку. Следующие пятьдесят лет Филомена безуспешно искала своего сына, не зная, что он так же искал её.

When she fell pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent to the convent at Roscrea in Co. Tipperary to be looked after as a fallen woman. She cared for her baby for three years until the Church took him from her and sold him, like countless others, to America for adoption. Coerced into signing a document promising never to attempt to see her child again, she nonet...

Unmarried mother Philomena Lee was forced to give up her son to Irish nuns, who sold him on to rich Americans. For decades she tried to find him. A chance meeting with Martin Sixsmith eventually uncovered the truth