Loosely based on the filmmaker’s own experiences, this film explores the tension that arises when a child is forced to parent their own parent. When her mother Suraya falls gravely ill, nineteen-year-old Hiba becomes her primary caregiver, while her older brother Hisham moves through the household largely unburdened. Hiba and Suraya love each other and wound each other in equal measure, locked in a push and pull that neither knows how to break. As Suraya's condition worsens, Hiba must navigate what it means to care for someone who cannot easily receive care, and what it costs her to keep showing up anyway.

Director bio:

Fatima Wardy is a Sudani filmmaker, raised in the United Kingdom and currently based in Baltimore, Maryland. Her work focuses on mothers and motherlands: on matriarchal tethers as sites of becoming. A descendant of the Nubian tribes of Sai and Halfa, she draws from her ancestors' oral storytelling traditions to explore what a Sudanese cinematic gaze might look like (and at).