Declutter

One Saturday morning filmmaker Madison Thomas has a revelation shes just like her mother As she thinks about a friend going through tough times she feels the sudden urge to clean Through the scrubbing and wiping and rinsing Madisons thoughts drift to her mother and her obsessive need to tidy Madisons mother survived a traumatic childhood her own mother never reconciled what she went through at residential school Cleaning offers moments of control that she didnt have as a child Shes fought hard against all odds to become a strong woman They say trauma is in the genes that its passed from one generation to the next But strength is inherited too Through rituals as simple as spending time together and smudging Madison and her mother are beginning to mend the cycle of pain in their family Declutter is an intimate look into a private moment between mother and daughter and the strength that carries them both