Bread & Roses
Based upon the life of activist and trade unionist (and later MP) Sonja Davies. The film covers her life up to 1956, when, at age 33, she was elected to the Nelson Hospital Board. During this period she develops strong socialist beliefs, marries and divorces, at age 17 trains as a nurse, has a romance (and a child) with an American marine who is killed in WWII action. She battles tuberculosis and marries a former boyfriend when he returns from the war. She becomes part of a women's ill-fated campaign to save the Nelson railway line from closure and begins to be elected to political bodies.
Cast
Geneviève Picot
as Sonja
Mick Rose
as Charlie
Donna Akersten
as mrs. Mackersey
Raymond Hawthorne
as Mr. Mackersey
Tina Regtien
as Con
Erik Thomson
as Red
Theresa Healey
as Peggy
Frances Kewene
as Maisie
Emily Perkins
as Joan
Larissa Matheson
as Dot
