In The Name Of My Father

Ailsa is frantic. She is a busy executive, but needs to find time to completely take stock of her hospitalized father’s apartment, which is bulging with myriad, undoubtedly valuable objets d’art, literally strewn throughout the apartment. In desperation, she rings her mother for help. But Helen steadfastly refuses. Helen and John separated many moons ago.

An unusually heated, confrontational telephone exchange follows, where Ailsa finds herself asking probing, sometimes inappropriate, and relentless questions, about Helen’s cloistered lifestyle. In her mother’s replies Ailsa senses there is something she is holding back, some dark secret (in fact one that Helen has been on the brink of disclosing many times, straining a smouldering mother-daughter relationship).

And then, the hospital doctor informs them that John may have a life-threatening brain tumour. This spurs Helen to reassess the truth about her relationship with John, and to rethink her initial refusal of help. She agrees to take over the organization of John’s apartment, allowing Ailsa to return to work.

Unexpectedly, disaster strikes, and lives are tossed into an ocean of sadness, conflict and frustration, as small fragments of the past reveal many shocking truths that will alter the course of Ailsa’s life.