PAPILLON
Drawing inventively on the life of rogue artist Diego Rivera, PAPILLON weaves the threads that connect three generations of women.
In 1937, on the eve of Hitler's attack on Guernica, the clock is ticking in a village schoolhouse as two children are being bullied into an early marriage. And then, the bombs drop.
In the decades that follow, Diego schemes with the survivors, a counterpoint to the contemporary story of 18-year-old Clarisse who goes to spend a summer in the village of Papillon with her mom in her grandmother Bella's home. Although it's decades later, amid the shrapnel of Guernica, Clarisse unearths fragments of her family’s secrets and some of the occasional magic that uplifts our search for connection and dignity.
PAPILLON blends history with mystery, but, above all, affirms the power of compassion to heal the wounds of bullying, war and other forms of stolen innocence.
In 1937, on the eve of Hitler's attack on Guernica, the clock is ticking in a village schoolhouse as two children are being bullied into an early marriage. And then, the bombs drop.
In the decades that follow, Diego schemes with the survivors, a counterpoint to the contemporary story of 18-year-old Clarisse who goes to spend a summer in the village of Papillon with her mom in her grandmother Bella's home. Although it's decades later, amid the shrapnel of Guernica, Clarisse unearths fragments of her family’s secrets and some of the occasional magic that uplifts our search for connection and dignity.
PAPILLON blends history with mystery, but, above all, affirms the power of compassion to heal the wounds of bullying, war and other forms of stolen innocence.