Moeder & Grunberg plot
At the age of 18, Arnon Grunberg leaves Amsterdam-Zuid with the ambition of becoming an actor and escaping his domineering mother and taciturn father. Now 44 years old and a successful writer living in New York, he decides it is time to return to his parental home. During the conversations about the war years, the tension between mother and son becomes palpable, but also the unconditional love they feel for each other. The conversations are interspersed with intimate scenes, revealing the world that the writer has always carefully shielded from his public life.