The protagonist "Bunny" has to find back to her place in the world, but since the society wont make it easy for an homeless women and institutions, who are used to help her, are failing her in any way, she's forced to find her own way by breaking a few laws.
The idea is simple, an homeless woman is trapped in a circle of poverty: in order to see her kids she has to get a home, in order to get a home she has to get work, also she has to look like "i'm-not-homess" in order to get a home or work. So it's difficult to get to her children, but she is trying anyway.
In addition to that, her niece "Tonya" experience the horror, and Bunny confronts her sister with it, but she doesn't believe her. So Bunnys mission throughout the movie is rescuing Tonya and celebrating her daughters birthday, while nobody will listen to her. To achieve that, she makes uncomfortable decisions like lying, exploiting or destroying.
The movie contains just a few characters, so Essie Davis ("Bunny") and Thomasin McKenzie ("Tonya") had to deliver and they did. I would recomment this movie to everyone who likes emotional dramas.
For me it's a good movie, I will watch it a second time some day.
Plot summary
Bunny (Essie Davis) is a homeless woman who is struggling to make ends meet by washing cars at intersections. Her children are in foster care due to her homeless status and she sleeps at her sister and brother-in-law's place doing chores and taking care of her brother-in-law's children and his mother. When she notices her brother-in-law sexually abuse his step-daughter Tonyah (Thomasin McKenzie) she confronts him and is thrown out of his house. After finding temporary refuge with a co-worker's family, she steals her brother-in-law's car and along with her niece sets off to find her kids to celebrate her daughter's birthday.
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Stunnin
At first I watched this movie just to watch Thomasin McKenzie, and yes it turns out that this film has a good and impressive storyline about the struggle of a mother and unconditional love even for her niece. Good acting from all actors, you should try to watch this movie.
Mothers love
Beautiful story about a mother's love and poverty. I enjoyed this movie and how it reflects reality of life. Amazing acting by the leading lady and her neice.