An astronaut sends her young son a video message from outer space. In Mexico, a stripper dances night after night to keep a roof over her childâs head. In Canada, a woman becomes a mother for the first time after enduring seven miscarriages. Finnish filmmaker Joonas BerghĂ€ll has travelled to South African settlements, Nepalese terraced fields and Russiaâs metropolis Moscow to investigate an unshakable and almost magical connection: the bond between mother and child. MOTHERâS WISH portrays 10 women from the most varied of cultural and social backgrounds who all tell of the beauty and difficulty of being a mother. These are not only stories of love and pride â but also of disappointed hopes and the most precarious of life circumstances. Above all else, however, the protagonists tell of their determination â regardless of their current living conditions â to fight for a better future.
