Back to Mom and Dad
When adults live at home again
“It's really a strain with my mom. But I just can't leave her alone any longer.† In her early 50s now, Birgit of Cologne has moved back in again with her mother. Together with her partner, she has occupies the small guest bedroom. The reason: her mother has suffered a cerebral thrombosis. She has recovered well, and already stands again behind the counter at her own business, but her daughter Birgit is anything but reassured. “She completely overestimates herself, it's really too much for her.† Birgit has decided to live at home, but she knows full well that rough times lie ahead.
Things are very different in Saskia’s case. She had no choice. Jobless, she found it impossible to keep her apartment on her “Hartz IV† public relief allowance. “I hope this is only a phase, but at the moment I'm at my wits end, I just can't deal with everything, not all at the same time.† Saskia does not deny that to move back in with mom and dad in your late 30s is a far from utopian scenario. Although her parents did not hesitate to take her in, living with them again means a new rhythm, means getting everyone used to one another again. “We’re getting to know each other again, with all the new quirks, all the old habits.†
“Back to Mom and Dad† accompanies two adults as they adapt to their new “roommates.† What is it like, after all these years, to sit together at the breakfast table? To realize that the roles are still the same, but that nonetheless, everything is different now? How do parents and children cope with life together after all these years? These are some of the questions addressed, some of the experiences documented in this film.
