La escuela de las buenas madres

Frida Liu is a 39-year-old single mother prone to anxiety. In Philadelphia, where she lives, she is reported for leaving her daughter alone for a short period of time. The State Child Protection Services, increasingly empowered, take her daughter Harriet from her and put Frida's house under surveillance. After a series of supervised visits, a judge finds that Frida is temporarily unfit as a mother. Her only hope is to continue to share custody of Harriet with her ex (and his loving girlfriend) and to pass the exams imposed by the precious new government program. It is a twelve-month in-house program, a school located on an abandoned university campus, that has to help Frida (and other bad mothers from all over the country) to become fit mothers again. The State has created assistants and instructors who will have to help mothers on the spot. These are young people programmed to measure and record whether women who regret their behavior feel a deep devotion to their children. These helpers will become very much like your children. Frida and other women live in this school for an undignified year. A year in which Frida will oscillate from stubborn hope to pain in the midst of constant indoctrination. Despite the affection she begins to feel for her "helper", Frida is not sure she can survive. Other mothers have not survived. However, Frida is determined to meet Harriet again, to remind her daughter of the value of her imperfect love, regardless of whether the State considers her a good mother or not.