世俗化的母亲为何养育出了宗教极端主义的女儿?几位角色共同回溯过往,完成令人震撼的自我剖析,逐步接近造成家庭悲剧的沉痛根源——戴上保守的头巾,借真主反制母亲,竟是女孩扭转家庭权力关系的唯一手段。然而所有的叛逆与反抗,从未让她们摆脱被社会规训和定义的牢笼。这个一代代重复的诅咒,今天仍在上演。导演考塞尔·本·哈尼埃打破纪录与剧情的边界,将表演与阐释结合,别出心裁的形式使主题的触角直抵人心最深处。本片获得戛纳电影节最佳纪录片金眼睛奖,并获得第96届奥斯卡最佳纪录长片提名。
The film opens in a bleak police station where celebrated war correspondent Kate Rafter (Seagrove) faces questions from a psychiatrist, Dr Shaw (Kurylenko), as they work through the painful events of Rafter’s life. A horrific incident in war-torn Iraq and the death of her mother (Steed) have brought a haunted Rafter home to Herne Bay, a place she believed she had escaped forever. Her resentful sister (Friel) has not made her sister welcome and her forbearing husband Paul (Miles) fails to broker peace. Whilst packing up her mother’s belongings from her childhood home, Rafter comes to believe there is something strange and terrifying happening in the house next door.