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The Mothers' Triangle

Eighteen, single, and living at home, Christina is about to have a baby. Her mother, Mary, was herself a sixteen-year-old single mother when Christina was born. Over a period of four years, this raw and unusually intimate documentary follows the two women as they struggle with their respective roles as daughter, mother, and grandmother while doing their best to raise Christina's son, Cristian.

Despite their best intentions and obvious love for Cristian, Mary's depression and the shadow of the abuse she experienced as a child, coupled with Christina's volatile behavior as she copes with becoming an adult, lead them into a series of confrontations that challenge their complex dependency on each other.



Best friends, sisters, mother and daughter, jealous rivals will their intense but fragile relationship be able to survive the escalating conflicts triggered by Cristian's arrival? And what will be the impact on the little boy who is the focus of both their love?

This is a revealing, heartrending portrait of two generations of young, single mothers, living in the shadow of abuse and abandonment, as they confront the question of what it means to be a good mother.

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Distributor: The Fanlight Collection

Length: 66 minutes

Date: 2005

Genre: Expository

Language: English

Grade: College/Adult/Professional

Color/BW:  Color

Closed Captioning: Available

Interactive Transcript: Available

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