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WHERE I END AND YOU BEGIN

By David POWER

Family - Production 2024

Stuck in a limbo between a troubled past and a future which looks hopeless, a single mother and her teenage son with Down syndrome struggle to find acceptance in a world that seems to have forgotten them.

- Year of production
- 2024
- Genres
- Family, First film, Documentary
- Countries
- ITALY, ROMANIA
- Languages
- ROMANIAN
- Duration
- 75 mn
- Director(s)
- David POWER
- Producer(s)
- Raffaella PONTARELLI (AMARENA FILM), Carla FOTEA
- Synopsis
- It’s been fifteen years since Mariana ran away from her violent husband, carrying only her eight year old son Alex, who has Down syndrome. Since then she has dedicated her life to singlehandedly taking care of him, with no support from the institutions whatsoever. As Alex leaves high-school and her already critical financial situation worsens, mother and son try to escape their harsh reality by moving to a seaside town, but only end up isolating more.
  As Alex shows signs of a violent predisposition, for the first time after 23 years living in symbiosis, Mariana is forced to contemplate giving him up.
  When mother and son are invited to join the Down syndrome community in Bucharest, can Mariana find the last traces of hope and strength to start again?