To Mitra Milutinovic, family is everything.

After taking a fall in her family home, ninety-year-old Mitra decides to uproot herself for the last stage of her life and move into Maple Retirement Place. Though her family is devasted, they respect the matriarch of their family and help her with this new transition. 

Mitra slowly begins to settle into her environment as her great-granddaughter, Sofija, visits Mitra every week, not satisfied that her partner-in-crime has left her home. Sofija begins to reflect on their conversations and decides to write her baba’s biography. Each visit brings more questions about Mitra’s childhood in the former Yugoslavia and the love story of her great-grandparents, leading to night-long conversations about the difference in generational traditions.
While Mitra delves into her past, images of her husband, Petar, and the life they made for themselves in this new country flood her memory. Though longing to be with him, she is determined to focus on her new family at Maple Retirement Place while keeping a watchful eye on her children. Yet, when a sudden illness rocks the foundation of her family, Mitra’s faith is shaken. She prays that the strength and love she and Petar created as a family will reach beyond her children's generations to comfort the next. 

Baba's Story celebrates Mitra's immigration to Canada and how the next generations of her family flourish in the country she now calls home.

No Love is Greater than a Parent's Love

Imagine if one moment of indiscretion changed the entire course of your life, catapulted you into single parenthood, and required that you give up all of your youthful dreams. What would you do? For Mary Watson, the feisty protagonist of No Love Is Greater Than A Parent’s Love, the answer was simple. She would make the best of her situation, become totally self-sufficient, and do everything possible to provide her child with a secure and stable home life. The path forward, Mary quickly realized, would not be easy, but with determination, fortitude and the help of a few good friends, she eventually managed to accomplish exactly what she set out to do. That is until life, as it tends to do, threw her a couple more curve balls.
​Stephen is successful, incredibly wealthy, and happily married with two amazing kids. Yet, he is unsatisfied. As time ticks on, Stephen finds the trappings and luxuries of his life—the consumerism, the waste, and the ego—distasteful. He dreads days at the office and meetings meant to finalize agreements.

Today, he sits in his office, reminiscing, when he is visited by a small warbler. How happy the bird seems! He stays for a moment, letting Stephen approach him, before he flies off again. With a start, Stephen realizes that today is the twentieth anniversary of his Grandpa Al’s death.

He had spent some of the best times of his life with his grandparents Al and Martha. Farmers living off the land in rural Ontario, they didn’t have much, but they had a roof over their heads, delicious homecooked meals in their bellies, meaning in their lives, and a lot of love to spare. His grandparents had seemed satisfied, fulfilled. Was that the gift of a simple, honest life?
Stephen is determined to make a change. Thankfully he will be spending the Victoria Day long weekend with his Grandma Martha, still at the farm. His rock, she will surely be able to help him weather this storm, rediscover his roots, and find a little more meaning.

An exploration of the generational gap and family traditions, The Warbler’s Call announces the eve of transformation.