A PLACE TO CALL HOME: THE STORY OF HOW A TV SERIES STIRRED PASSIONS AND CONNECTIONS

A Place To Call Home begins on a ship when a nurse—Sister Adams by name—works her passage home to Australia to console her mother who is grieving for a son killed in the Korean War. Estranged from her family, she stands before the welcome mat, fearful of what she will find inside and wondering whether her mother will accept her despite a breach of decades. Several minutes into their reunion, the mother tells her daughter to leave because she cannot reconcile with a child, born a Catholic, w...