Woman Raped by Father Seeks Advice From Dead Mother in Root Cellar

by Tina
(Pacific Northwest)

I'm trying to remember the name of a film in which a young man in his twenties drives around little Northern towns (Canada?) on his motorcycle trying to find his missing father.

He meets a middle-aged woman who lives with her teenage daughter in an old house in the boondocks. He does some work for them and develops a romance with the daughter, but the mother will not let the daughter leave.

Also, there is an old rundown bird walk that people used to walk through, hidden by the walls, and watch birds. In a flash back, when the middle-aged woman was younger, she was chased through the bird walk by her drunken father. She tried to run into the house to get away but her mother locked the door and wouldn't let her in. So I think that the current teenage daughter is a result of incestuous rape.

Back to the present, the middle-aged mother talks to her old mother and asks for advice on raising her daughter. We eventually find out the old woman is dead and lounging in some kind of root cellar. The woman brings her dead mother food and keeps her locked in the cellar, some sort of justice for locking the door to the house in the past.

There is a small town with a tavern where the young man goes and speaks with the locals, trying to get information, and gets in trouble.

I'm not sure about the rest. Was the missing father ever at that house? Was he murdered there? Will the young couple run off together on that motorcycle? Will the dead grandmother eat everyone's brains?

Please help me find the title of this film so I can finish watching it. I am now desperate. I've researched online using tons of search terms and have found nada. It may be a Canadian Indie Thriller Horror film. I watched it in the early 2000's on TV but couldn't watch all of it.