Forced to live with his father, a voodoo priest he barely knows, Malcolm, a troubled teenager, wavers between the call of crime or the chance to take back control of his life.
Blending memories, fiction, and confessions, Silk Spun tells the history of three generations of women from a Vietnamese family since their arrival in Quebec in 1975. In the intimacy and vulnerability of her intergenerational relationships, the director exposes the contextual disparities transforming the relationship to individual identity among the women of her family.
Three feminine voices come together, blending their intimate accounts of trauma to body and identity. Set against dreamlike images, they explore the complexity of the female experience through resilience and vulnerability.
