This Is a Film About My Mother

A millennial American girl befriends a Lebanese housewife and disrupts her ordered life; one night they find themselves accidental partners-in-crime.

Things Break In is an intimate portrait of independence and love. Ida and Rosa work on a farm to support their families during wartime. Things Break In drops us into a unique circumstance that invites us to see what might happen when two women in 1940 are required to work together in privacy.

Sylvia is waiting for her life to begin, withering under the weight of her hypochondriac mother until a stranger comes into her world and changes everything.