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She's Been Away

An elderly woman, once institutionalized as a young girl due to her family's shame, returns to her ancestral home, confronting the remnants of her past and the memories that have haunted her for decades.

A woman who has been institutionalized for 60 years for the "crime" of not conforming to the 1920s image of what a proper young woman should be (in other words, she did what she wanted and didn't care what anyone else thought about it) is finally released to the custody of her family, consisting of her grand-nephew and his family. At first she keeps a self-imposed distance from the relatives, but she soon finds herself coming around to her nephew's wife, a free spirit who is under the thumb of her cold and controlling husband.

Info about She's Been Away

Studio(s): BBC

Originally Released: United States, Jul 09, 1989

Production Country: United Kingdom

Genres:Drama