Mama’s Valentino Shoes
Elisabeth Meneses Del Castillo
Logline:
A conversation between 9-year-old Amelia and her mother Elisabeth, an immigrant from Colombia, raises the little girl’s curiosity about her mom’s life before immigrating to Canada, and leads to the discovery of why her mother owns a pair of expensive shoes that she didn’t have the means to buy at the time.
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