A want in her

Set between the ruins of the childhood home and intimate archives, the film paints a visceral portrait of the director’s mother, marked by 28 years of alcoholism, and unfolds as a personal meditation on the cultural roots of addiction in Ireland. When the father’s illness leaves the mother in the care of her daughter and son, their attempt to save her gradually spirals into self-destruction, until the siblings make the painful decision to let go. Through an expressive visual language — fish-eye lenses, ghostly sequences, self-reflexivity on TV screens — and unexpected performative moments, the film becomes a shared act of therapy, where love, guilt, and release intertwine in a symbolic gesture of liberation through the demolition of the family home.