A hyperactive adolescent child in the grip of violent impulses, Steve is in and out of reformatories and psychiatric shelters. He finds his mother to greet him, who is also on the rampage, turbulent, seasoned, and rather rowdy. Still looking for a home and a job to support her son and to pay the lawyers she makes the acquaintance of her new neighbor, a resigned, restless, stuttering woman. Her name is Kyla and she will bring a breath of love and tenderness to Diane's home, almost electing it her first home. Married and with a daughter, she seems to harbor unresolved secrets and difficulties. She loves Steve and is dedicated to his education and schooling. They seem inseparable and all three share moments of joy, lightheartedness, and love. Although everything seems to be going well, between lunches and skateboard rides, travel arrangements will present a tragically unpredictable situation. The great unbreakable love between son and mother with middle-class dreams will rip open an abysmal horizon.

The opening of an unresolvable question mark will open the conclusion of Dolan's latest feature... A responsible, complicit and devoted mother will reveal her ambiguous, devouring, stepmotherly side.

A despairing vision of the mother-son relationship in a world in which the male figure is the great absentee.

140 minutes of great cinema, intense and baroque, intrusive and seductive. A cry for help and search, a need for recognition and a desperate attempt to draw attention.

Oedipus together with Steve gets stuck in the complex of tragic and psychoanalytic memory, while loneliness drowns in the abyss of ambiguity.

20-Aug-2023 by Beatrice