Mia has recently taken in her mother Bird, a charming but at times infuriating woman with a mental illness. A day in their life together reveals that sometimes you need to let go of control and enjoy the ride.

Director’s Vision for ‘Mia, Indeterminate’

I’ve been dreaming of my mother-daughter film for a long time. It’s a dynamic I have spent a lot of time thinking about bringing to life on screen and navigating in my own life.

Mia, Indeterminate is comedic drama about mothers leaning on daughters and daughters trying to control everything — especially mothers. Best described as a “second coming of age story”: that moment in a person’s life when they not only realize their parent is a real person, but can (and will) judge their parents’ decision-making.

It’s also a story of mental illness and being a caretaker of someone you love who struggles with it — a part of the story that is personal for both the writer and I. And although I didn’t write her, Bird is my mother. Bird was my mother’s mother. There’s a universality to her that is as endearing as it is painful. She exists entirely in her own world, which is both beautiful to watch and hard to bear.

This film is an ode to the very nuanced, somewhat strenuous, all the time special relationship between a mother and daughter.