The Garden Where Flowers Grew

Written and directed by Michelle Mason

Produced by Teri Snelgrove

In the spring of 1975, six-year-old Michelle Mason found herself stranded at the side of a school road when she heard the unforgettable sound of a large car coming up the hill: the man who had just molested her in a secret garden was coming back to get her. Fifty years later, the memory fragments of that afternoon become a mystery that unfolds like a nightmare in The Garden Where Flowers Grew, a short documentary about healing through the pursuit of restorative justice.

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