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Mothering

Lucy Bridger · UK · Drama / Family · 14 min · ♥︎ 571

Directed by Lucy Bridger · Starring Ursula Jones, Angela McHale, Sapphire Paine · 2019

Newly arrived at a foster home, young Mia gets her first period in the early hours, and finds unexpected help from her foster parent's elderly mother, Pauline.

A tender, quietly moving drama about an unexpected bond between a foster child and an older woman on a difficult night.

Mothering tells the story of a young girl, Mia, arriving at her new foster home. When her first period unexpectedly appears in the early hours, help comes in the form of her foster parent's elderly mother, Pauline.

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