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The generation gap threatens to spoil everything when two grown grandchildren visit their grandmother in her garden. They have a special family tradition, but the grandmother thinks it's difficult to recreate the magic from the past when her grandchildren are always pressuring her to smoke in secret because everything has to be so 'woke'.
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The peculiar antics of Laurel, an emotionally troubled young girl, are the focus of The Chalk Garden – a stately household drama set on the cliffs of the English south coast. Edith Evans plays a matriarchal grandmother who, in raising her granddaughter, has neglected her other love – a barren chalk garden. Mayhem ensues as Laurel's behavior frightens away a succession of governesses until an enigmatic one is hired in spite of her mysterious references. She skillfully sets about tending to the girl's reckless emotions and the pitifully failed garden.