Laurinas Geheimnis

Just before Christmas, in the late eighties in Ireland. Violence, religious terror, exclusion, and hostility dominate everyday life in a neighborhood near Belfast. "Sandy is what keeps me alive," Laurina tells her mother one day. It is the day the eleven-year-old girl begins to fight against an unimaginably bleak existence. At the new school, everyone is against Laurina and her sister Sandy because they are not honest Catholics, as the other children say. While their mother struggles to get by each day with various jobs to feed her children, they are also despised for their obvious poverty. When they are separated from their mother, their world collapses. Only a classmate gradually restores Laurina's trust and hope - but this very boy harbors a significant, grave secret. Laurina's Secret - A social drama by the author of the Ellis Baxter series, set in late 20th century Ireland, telling the story of a girl who would go through hell for her little sister.