Valentina's Mother

An intricate relationship is woven between Paula (80), a holocaust survivor living on her own and Valentina (25), a migrant worker from Poland who comes to live with her. When Paula meets Valentina, who shares the same name as an old Christian friend from Paula’s childhood, repressed memories from the holocaust awaken. As time passes Paula becomes extremely dependent on Valentina. Dark memories from her past continue to surface and Paula begins to lose her grasp of reality. She is relentless in her needs to have Valentina around. For Valentina things become too intense, and she asks to leave. The night before Valentina is about to leave, Paula arranges a farewell dinner in which their intimacy and their shared fates are revealed