Camilla Strøm Henriksen’s impressive debut feature starts with Jill, a teenage girl (a touching performance from Ylva Thedin Bjørkaas), coming home from school and nervously looking for her mother in the apartment. She carefully searches the dark, untidy place cluttered with empty liquor bottles, only to find that her mother is asleep. She returns to her usual routine, but her fear and anxiety make sense—her mother has been struggling with depression and mental illness for years and she appears to be an alcoholic. Jill’s long-estranged father, a musician with few responsibilities, comes into town for a couple of days; Jill has to take care of her younger brother and desperately tries to hold on to the appearance of a perfectly “normal”, happy family, like any other. Phoenix smartly subverts the typical roles of mothers and daughters and depicts the complicated reality of a teenage girl who is forced to grow up too fast. Seemingly realistic narration is juxtaposed with more surreal, dreamy scenes that appear to be drawn from the brave and resilient girl’s nightmares.