Desiree

Directed by Felix de Rooy

With Marianne Rolle, Dan Strayhorn, Cynthia Belgrave, Joanne Jacobson and Askina Touree

Set in Brooklyn, New York this Dutch film is based on a true story that appeared on a New York newspaper in 1980. Desirée lives in the past. A series of flashbacks expose us to her psychologically troubled childhood very much affected by a promiscous mother.