Tell It to the Bees

The story

Dr. Jean Markham returns to the town she left as a teenager to take over her late father's medical practice. When a school-yard scuffle lands Charlie in her surgery, she invites him to visit the hives in her garden and tell his secrets to the bees, as she once did. The new friendship between the boy and the bee keeper brings his mother Lydia into Jean's world.

• #lesbian
• #based on novel or book
• #beekeeper
• #1950s
• #working class
• #woman director
• #scotland
• #lesbian relationship
• #failed marriage
• #lgbt