Message from Mum

The film documents habits in the relationship between the director and her manic depressive mum.
The mother lives in a protected surburban community where she gets help from the council to
maintain a functional life. On a personal level she struggles to carry out her role as a mother of two
grown up children, as a mum in law and as a grandmother. But in her own way she insists on
being part of the family!
She rings constantly and leaves long, elaborate messages on her daugther¿s answering machine,
creating a journal of an universe of thoughts. And when she gets hospitalised a well known family
routine sets in.