Under The Piano (1997)

An autistic child growing up in the 1940s and 50s with a mother who is bitter because her fear of success has denied to herself a possible career in opera This anger translates into an overprotectiveness of her mentally ill daughter even into the childs adulthood But a loving sister herself having an arm that is paralyzed is a bastion against the limitations imposed by the mother and finally helps her sister to live a more full life