Ladybird, Ladybird (film)
For the 1963 Frank Perry film, see Ladybug Ladybug film
In a karaoke bar Maggie Crissy Rock, a woman with a troubled past, meets South American Jorge and has a drink with him. During their conversation we learn about both their past lives in flashback we learn that she witnessed her father beating her mother, and later was beaten several times by her expartner Ray Winstone. She has four children by four different fathers and all of her children are in care. Jorge is a Paraguayan who is afraid to return to his own country for fear of persecution there.Maggie goes on to make a relationship with Jorge, being impressed with his poetry and his history. Her relationship with him is initially a tentative one because of her previous experience with her earlier partner. The film goes on to show her time in a womens refuge one night as she was singing in a club she was told that there was trouble at her home when she got there she found that her house had been subject to a fire and her children were injured. The local authority then took her children into care and Maggie now blames her former abusive partner for having her children taken from her but she says she shares some of the blame. ........
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