Tell It to the Bees

Tell It to the Bees

Some secrets are too powerful to keep.

2019106 min7.5 / 10

A tender, melancholic period romance about a woman doctor and a boy's mother finding connection and healing through secrets shared with bees in 1950s Scotland.

Dr. Jean Markham returns to the town she left as a teenager to take over her late father's medical practice. When a school-yard scuffle lands Charlie in her surgery, she invites him to visit the hives in her garden and tell his secrets to the bees, as she once did. The new friendship between the boy and the bee keeper brings his mother Lydia into Jean's world.

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