Aliane

Aliane (played by Deborah Verginella) was Amy Alden's mother and Thomas Alden's former wife.

Aliane was working as a recording artist in Ontario, Canada in the 1980's. She married Thomas Alden and moved on a farm with him where they raised their daughter Amy born in 1982. Aliane eventually became exasperated with Alden's eccentric and costly projects and felt that artists can be rather selfish, and this kept causing tension in the family. When her marriage with Alden ended in 1985, she moved to New Zealand with her daughter to pursue her career. Aliane was killed in a car accident in 1995. Notes The character is never referred to by name during the film, but Amy is once seen looking at a compact disc featuring a photograph of her mother and the recording artist's name reads as "Aliane." Amy is looking at it during her first days in Canada and she is clearly grieving her mother at that moment. Amy later mentions her mother was an artist, and we can suppose Aliane was a musician because of the compact disc; the fact that Amy plays tuba could also have to do with music running in the family.