Absences

Carole Laganière dives deeply into personal territory in this beautifully crafted exploration of absence and loss and its painful effect on daily lives Inspired by her mothers steadily advancing Alzheimers and the inevitability of her estrangement Laganière weaves their story with the stories of others wrestling with loss Ines an immigrant who returns to her birth country of Croatia to find the mother who abandoned her during the war Deni an American author whos finally able to search for his Quebec roots and Nathalie whos desperately looking for her missing sister Through their experiences the film ponders how absence is often the catalyst for a questa quest for information understanding and often acceptance Through its many voices Absences speaks to us of the immense fragility and resiliency of human emotions