A daughter grapples to understand her dying mother through fables from her childhood. From present London to 1950s Ireland, a surreal, unsentimental look at the Hinterland between life and death, the bias of memory, and the thirst for narrative in the face of mortality.
Niamh Algar
Fiona
Ingrid Craigie
Brenda
Hailey Grace McAllister
Young Brenda
John Kavanagh
Jim
Brenda McNeill
Aunt
Themba Mbondiya
Dr. Kelvin Lac
Alfie Lawless
John
Aislinn Sands
Brenda’s Mother
Chris Robinson
Brenda’s Father
A daughter grapples to understand her dying mother through fables from her childhood. From present London to 1950s Ireland, a surreal, unsentimental look at the Hinterland between life and death, the bias of memory, and the thirst for narrative in the face of mortality.
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