From the Egyptian intersex God of fertility, Hapi, to the Greco-Roman story of Pero keeping her imprisoned malnourished mother alive with breastfeeding, for centuries, breast milk led to women’s oppression and was a reason to justify patriarchal power relations. With archive footage floating up from an ocean of milk, a history of maternal concerns is set against modern biopolitical thinking.

An ode to The Searching Mothers of Sonora, a group of mothers searching for the bodies of their missing sons in the Mexican desert, a visual act of resistance to the lingering violence, and a token of admiration for the women who have become unwilling private detectives and anthropologists in addition to being mothers.

A candid conversation between two women at a kitchen table. Full of astonishing details, it describes a memory from an abusive relationship and its disastrous end.

Women, a baby, a clear blue sea, fish and other sea creatures, contrasts of warmth and cold. A film about caring, sisterhood and motherhood. A memory to a moment without language, in the womb, or just after.