A mother rewrites her trauma with her son rolling camera — healing through cinema's alchemy.
Audrey, a woman in her mid-fifties, has never been able to make peace with her tumultuous family history. A clumsy mother, an emotionally distant father and sexual assaults that have gone unreported. She now decides to confront her demons. Supported by her son, the director of the documentary, she revisits a striking scene from her past: the moment when she told her parents that her grandfather had raped her. Together, through a year-long production process, they transform this awkward exchange into a moment of communion, thanks to actors, a set and Audrey's desire to do herself justice.
Direction
Son filming mother reenacting her own rape disclosure — unbearably intimate.
Writing
The recreated scene's script: negotiated truth between memory and justice.
Director
Éloi Baril
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film extends a recent wave of French-Canadian documentary-autofiction (like Hubert Davis's work) where directors turn family trauma into collaborative cinema, blurring who heals whom.
The recreated living room scene reportedly used Audrey's actual childhood furniture — the couch where she disclosed, now a set piece.
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