Mothers Wish

An astronaut sends her young son a video message from outer space In Mexico a stripper dances night after night to keep a roof over her childs head In Canada a woman becomes a mother for the first time after enduring seven miscarriages Finnish filmmaker Joonas Berghäll has travelled to South African settlements Nepalese terraced fields and Russias metropolis Moscow to investigate an unshakable and almost magical connection the bond between mother and child MOTHERS WISH portrays 10 women from the most varied of cultural and social backgrounds who all tell of the beauty and difficulty of being a mother These are not only stories of love and pride but also of disappointed hopes and the most precarious of life circumstances Above all else however the protagonists tell of their determination regardless of their current living conditions to fight for a better future