Évelyne Brown

A tale where appearances deceive paints the portrait of a neighborhood filled with secrets.

Back in the family home a year after her mother's death, a daughter begins a painful sorting process with her father, navigating between silence and memories, in an attempt to rebuild a fragile bond marked by absence and grief.

Blending memories, fiction, and confessions, Silk Spun tells the history of three generations of women from a Vietnamese family since their arrival in Quebec in 1975. In the intimacy and vulnerability of her intergenerational relationships, the director exposes the contextual disparities transforming the relationship to individual identity among the women of her family.

Silence settles over Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré’s frozen landscape, where echoes of a once-thriving religious tourism linger. At the heart of a place in transition, this film takes viewers on a timeless journey through memory and disappearance, weaving together presence and absence.