- A Mother's traumatic miscarriages get in the way of supporting her adopted daughter's passage into womanhood.
- A Mother's ability to keep her traumatic past at bay is compromised when she discovers her adopted daughters period. Challenged by her shortcomings as a woman she must decide whether to put her damaged self perception aside or accept a distant relationship.
- Ellen succeeds well at keeping her past and shattered self perception at bay by focusing on her freelance producing job, away from her family. But on Mother's Day, when Ellen discovers her adopted daughter Lilly has gotten her period, the trauma from her miscarriages begins to seep into her consciousness and she is no longer capable of sustaining the balancing act. As their already fragile tie is gravely compromised, she must risk vulnerability to save their relationship. MORS DAG (Mother's Day) is a thesis film created by a group of filmmakers as a part of their Master of Fine Arts Degree from the American Film Institute Conservatory. In this intimate and suspenseful character drama, we look at the possibility of intergenerational repercussions of trauma and the strength it takes to open up, be vulnerable and start healing. In MORS DAG we go on a subjective a journey with Ellen who compensates from her traumatic past by traveling as a freelance producer; far from a home life that reminds her of her inability to carry a child full term. For each of her miscarriages she has planted an orange tree in commemoration; and then pushed all the memories far away. Believing it was dealt with. Upon discovering her adopted daughter Lilly's period, she starts to sense the destructive pattern she subconsciously has slid into over the years. Ellen begins to understand that she must face the trauma and finally own up to the fallout of her choice to never share her deepest hurt and insecurities with her daughter.
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