Flowers of Purgatory

Set over the course of a seven-day trip to the United Kingdom, Flowers of Purgatory explores how Beatrix Tompkins, a high school principal from small town Oregon, seeks closure to her decades of mourning the loss of her English fiancé. While she tries to maintain control over her young co-sponsor and the five students, Beatrix must come to terms with the reality of her emotional, psychological, and spiritual poverty. Though hardened by her life's circumstances, Beatrix receives undeserved grace. Flowers of Purgatory contemplates the nature of redemption, the burdens we bear, and the cost of letting them go.