Betty
From the series "The Atwood Stories"
In post-World War II rural Ontario, eight-year-old Alice and her older sister move into a small cottage along a river next door to kindly Betty and her handsome and charismatic husband, Fred. Before the summer is over, Fred has run off with another woman and Betty has suffered a breakdown. Years later, when an erratic Betty reappears in their lives, a teenaged Alice must come to terms both with the world’s unfairness and with its mystery.