In My Mothers House (2017)

One day in 2005 Lina Fruzzetti receives a startling email that reads If this is your father we are cousins There follows a decadelong quest to learn more about her Italian father who died young in Italian ruled Eritrea and her Eritrean mother who does not dwell on the past Above all Fruzzetti strives to understand her farflung African European and American family against the backdrop of colonial rule worlds at war migration grief diasporas and the global world in which we all live