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Vera's world shatters when one of her cases is hospitalized with a life-threatening infection. The police trace the event back to her, and she is arrested during a celebratory family dinner for her daughter Ethel’s engagement.
The story of centers on a working-class woman in 1950s London who balances a life of relentless kindness with a dangerous, illegal secret. The Two Lives of Vera Drake vera drake
Vera is a "terminally cheerful" woman who lives in a cramped but happy flat with her husband, Stan, and their two adult children, Sid and Ethel. Her days are filled with selflessness: she works as a housekeeper for upper-middle-class families and spends her few spare minutes visiting sick neighbors, offering tea, and caring for her elderly mother. Vera's world shatters when one of her cases