Stéphane Bak

Beautifully tender and deeply moving, Mother and Son is a vibrant portrait of a family told from multiple perspectives. Centred on a young mother and her two sons after their move from the Ivory Coast to France, the film is an impassioned tale of shifting tensions and identity from writer-director Léonor Serraille (Jeune Femme).

When 16-year-old Leila wakes up late one morning, she finds the neighbourhood silent and deserted. Everyone has mysteriously disappeared. Starting to wonder if she was the unique survivor of an unexplained disaster, Leila discovers four other teenagers: Dodji, Yvan, Camille and Terry. Together they will try to understand what happened and learn to survive in their world which has become hostile... But are they truly alone?