Dear Frankie

Dear Frankie is a 2004 British drama film directed by Shona Auerbach. The screenplay by Andrea Gibb focuses on a young single mother whose love for her son prompts her to perpetuate a deception designed to protect him from the truth about his father. Lizzie Morrison, her opinionated, chain-smoking mother Nell, and nine-year-old deaf son Frankie frequently move to keep one step ahead of her ex-husband and his family. Newly relocated in the Scottish seaside town of Greenock, she accepts a job at the local fish and chips shop owned by Marie and enrolls the boy in school. Through a Glasgow post office box, Frankie maintains a regular correspondence with someone he believes to be his father, who allegedly is a merchant seaman working on the HMS Accra. In reality, the letters he receives are written by his mother, who prefers maintaining this charade to telling her son the reason she fled her marriage. As the boy's father Davey, she tells him about his adventures in exotic foreign lands,... full article at wikipedia