Mother Play

Phyllis, a divorced mother with a taste for gin and a fierce temper, moves her teenage children Carl and Martha into a cramped basement apartment outside Washington, D.C., where the rent is cut if Carl takes out the rubbish. Over the decades that follow the family is pushed from one home to the next, and as Carl and Martha grow up and come out, their mother's love and her disapproval become harder and harder to tell apart.