Inga is a mother with the soul of a poet at a crossroads. Her estranged husband Hermann is bereft of emotional support for her in the wake of her recovery from breast cancer, let alone her passion for buying and restoring and house that reminds her of her childhood home. She shares a close bond with her eight-year-old daughter, and though she is troubled by her decaying marriage, she retains a strong spirit of optimism, as expressed in her own writing.
Acting
Marcia Gay Harden's fragile ferocity — every tremor earned.
Writing
Inga's actual poetry woven throughout, raw and unpolished.
Director
Mary Haverstick
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Eulala Scheel is Marcia Gay Harden's real daughter; their chemistry is documentary-level authentic because it literally is.
Director Mary Haverstick based this on her own mother's poetry and home restoration obsession, making the film a haunted love letter disguised as fiction.
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