A 25-minute gut punch about wiping your dying mother's ass — and somehow it's beautiful.
As her mother suffers through the final stages of terminal pancreatic cancer, cello teacher Chung Yi spends her days commuting back and forth between music lessons and hospital visits. One day, in the absence of a caretaker, Chung Yi is left to change her mother’s diaper and clean up her excrement. Tensions explode in a perfect storm of inner panic as the mother grapples with a loss of dignity in front of her daughter, while Chung Yi searches for the strength to provide for her dying mother’s needs.
Acting
Han Ning's silent panic is absolutely shattering.
Direction
Milk Su makes 25 minutes feel like a lifetime of grief.
Director
Milk Su
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Taiwan's rapidly aging population makes this a quietly political film — elder care falls disproportionately on daughters, often without state support.
Director Milk Su reportedly cast her own mother in early short films; this marks her first fictional work dealing directly with parental care.
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