How to Daughter

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After a fall leaves Anne (Georgie Glen) in hospital, a high fever begins to blur the boundaries between past and present. Her daughter Sarah (Louise Osbourne) arrives after a long drive from work and takes her place at the bedside, where old resentments, half remembered truths and decades of emotional distance begin to surface.

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In Anne’s delirium, younger versions of them step into the room, shaped as much by memory as by reality. Sarah appears at twenty two, fresh from a 1980s gymnastics practice: darker, angrier and more entitled than the woman she will become, seen through the unforgiving lens of her mother’s recollection.

 

A young Anne emerges from the late 1950s, still carrying the wounds of her own childhood and the beginnings of patterns she will unknowingly pass on.

 

As past and present collide, memories are replayed, disputed and reframed. The women are forced to confront not only what happened, but how differently the same life can be remembered by those who lived it.

 

How to Daughter is a story about mothers, daughters, inherited hurt and the simple human need to be seen.