The Dressmaker Trailer

When Myrtle (Tilly) was little, she lived a happy life, along with her mother in the small town of Dungatar. When the local school bully is found dead with Myrtle standing over the body, she is immediately accused of the murder and at the behest of the boy's father (who's also a town councillor) Tilly's packed off to boarding school to live a life away from the town and her mother.

Forced to grow up quickly, Tilly runs away to Europe where she finds herself being taken in by a skilled seamstress - sewing was one of the skills that her mother taught her before being forced to leave. Tilly eventually finds herself being recommended to a famous designer who teaches Tilly how to make wonderful clothes.

As years pass, Tilly's mother Molly Dunnage is still constantly talked about and at the centre of any rumours and little by little becomes less able to look after herself. Now living in her dilapidated home, there are few people who speak to her and even less willing to help the old lady to help look after her. 

Her memory of that fateful day are fuzzy but Tilly knows that she didn't kill the boy. With the death of Stuart Pettigrew still hanging over her head, Tilly returns to her childhood town so that she can look after her mother and finally find some answers to the questions she's so desperately sought.

Dressed in her finest Parisian garments, Tilly soon sets the town alight with more small-town gossip - mainly by enviable woman who could only wish to own a wardrobe as fine as Tilly apparently unending supply of lavish clothes.

Dealing with her mother's dementia and all the other problems that come along with moving back to your home town isn't going to be easy for Tilly but piece by piece, she might just be able to figure out the truth of what happened on that day so many years ago.