Katherine Dieckmann, experienced director and Creative Advisor to the Sundance Film Festival, wrote and directed this story of a mother’s grief and retribution based in the southern United States.

Darcey Baylor (Holly Hunter) goes through the motions of life with her beloved dog but is still coming to terms with the death of her son to suicide seven years before.  By chance she discovers that her son’s best friend at the time of his death, has replicated exactly a business plan her son came up with, based on where he and she used to go when he was a small child, and has become a multi-millionaire.  He may also have been instrumental in her son taking his own life.  Darcey sets out to find out the truth.

With haunting music by Sharon Van Etten, we are taken down the banks of the great Mississippi.  Hunter is mesmerising as she journeys through the difference stages of grief, blaming herself and pondering what might have been.

See it:

Friday 30th June 2050 Odeon 2

Saturday 1st July 2055 Cineworld

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Mary is a longstanding writer with publications in The Scotsman and a number of independent travel logs and blogs. She has written professionally as part of her 40 year career in education and for pleasure.