LOVE AND DIANE

After six and a half years in a children’s home, Love is allowed to go back to her mother, Diane, who has turned a new leaf. Diane is now free of her crack addiction, she’s renting an apartment in Brooklyn, found religion and has ambitions to make something of her life. Three of her four daughters and her last remaining son – her eldest committed suicide – come to live with her. Sharing their life again is not without problems; the children have led a tough life so far and have ambiguous feelings towards their mother, while Diane, herself abandoned as a child by an alcoholic mother, clashes regularly with 18-year-old Love. Love is HIV positive and has a child of her own (“I wanted something in my life that would make me feel good...”), but not having come to grips with her past prevents her from being a good mother. When Love is seized by a violent fit of rage, Diane calls the police, just as Love had once betrayed her mother by accusing her at school of neglecting her children. History seems to be repeating itself...