Betty Fisher and Other Stories (2001) on Netflix
Novelist Betty Fisher grieves her son Joseph. Her mother Margot has a boy Jose taken from his mother and brought to Betty, who accepts him as her son, knowing it is wrong.
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Plot summary
Betty Fisher is a bestselling novelist whose young son, Joseph, dies in a tragic accident, and she enters a dark depression. Her mother, Margot, is unstable, and, hoping to lift her daughter out of the depression, she arranges to kidnap a boy named Jose and bring him to Betty to replace the son she lost. Betty knows the arrangement is wrong, and she accepts Jose as her son all the same. Jose's mother, Carole, is a promiscuous waitress who wants her son back. She searches for him with help from her boyfriend, François Diembele, and from some of his criminal associates.
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