[Docs Month] "Au fond des mères" by Lisa Lacombe

7 Rue de La Vallee, Médiathèque Jules Verne

What does it mean to become a mother? What are the different emotions tangled with the arrival of a child? They read in the birth announcements: "We are overjoyed..." and they were mostly expecting that: joy. Five women who do not recognize themselves in the dominant and media narrative bear witness to their ambivalent experience. From their metamorphoses, from their births to themselves, and to the world, as mothers. Five women tell their story to a sixth, who does not know what she wants. With courage, humor, and acuity, they begin to speak to face a void co…