Moeder dochter

Summary

“Moeder dochter” follows Lilly, a 40-year-old politician whose public career is built around an uncompromising anti-immigration stance. When she returns to her childhood home to care for her elderly mother, Hanna, whose Alzheimer’s disease is steadily eroding her memory and independence, Lilly is forced to set aside her political image and confront the difficult realities of family life. The relationship between mother and daughter is tense and emotionally complicated. Lilly struggles with the practical and moral demands of caregiving, while Hanna moves unpredictably between moments of lucidity, confusion, and fragments from the past. As Lilly settles back into the house, she begins uncovering clues about her mother’s early life—an aspect of Hanna’s history that challenges the assumptions Lilly has carried about both her mother and herself. Rather than treating Alzheimer’s solely as a medical condition, the film uses Hanna’s fading memory to explore how personal and collective histories are preserved, distorted, or deliberately concealed. Lilly’s political convictions also take on a more intimate dimension as her mother’s past forces her to question the boundaries between public ideology and private experience. The film’s central concerns include the burdens of caregiving, the fraught bond between mothers and daughters, the legacy of trauma, and the ways identity can be shaped by stories we inherit. Quiet and character-driven, “Moeder dochter” is a family drama about confronting uncomfortable truths while there is still time to listen.