The Subject Was Roses
The Story of Three Strangers...A Mother...A Father...And a Son.
A claustrophobic domestic drama about a returning soldier confronting the disillusionment of family bonds fractured by resentment and regret.
Timmy Cleary returns to his Bronx home at the end of World War II and is soon disillusioned to find his parents' marriage filled with discord, quarreling, and recriminations.
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