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MOTHER OF INVENTION

By Holly BRACE-LAVOIE

H264 - as SALES / DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline

Female director - Post-Production 2022

A writer and new mother struggles with paralyzing writer’s block. She finds inspiration her neighbors’ arguments, but when their world and hers collide in real life, she faces a moral dilemma that puts her work, her kid and her identity in question.

- Year of production
- 2022
- Genres
- Female director, Social issues, Drama
- Countries
- CANADA
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Director(s)
- Holly BRACE-LAVOIE
- Synopsis
- Sadie is a novelist on maternity leave with her first baby. She’s isolated, trapped indoors by terrible weather, hasn’t written a word in months and now her agent is asking for new work. Despite her best efforts she’s hopelessly blocked, until one day she finds the inspiration she needs in an argument from beyond her living room wall. Her next-door neighbors - their squabbles, their lovemaking, their laughter - become the fuel for her new narrative. Sadie comes alive with possibilities these disembodied voices create in her mind. She begins to believe she might really be able to balance her career with the needs of her new family. But it all crashes to the ground again when an argument next door turns physical, then violent. Sadie now faces a moral dilemma that places her creative ambitions in direct opposition with her ethics. She’ll be forced to decide in a hurry what kind of person she really is, now.