Coco has no idea what to do with her life until she discovers her mother is terminally ill. She wholeheartedly embraces this new purpose in life and moves in with her mother to take care of her, ignoring their distant relationship, as well as her mother's desire to die alone.
Acting
Kleinsma's razor-sharp deathbed sarcasm vs van 't Laar's desperate optimism
Writing
Dialogue that makes euthanasia debates feel like family dinner
Director
Saskia Diesing
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Netherlands' progressive euthanasia laws loom over every frame—this film couldn't exist set elsewhere.
Diesing based Elisabeth partly on her own grandmother, who also wanted to die without family interference.