The Ballad of Being a Better Mother (2026)

Each dawn, a middle-aged mother sets out the morning meal for her household—a ritual she has repeated countless times, yet one that feels eerily incomplete. On the surface, everything appears ordinary, but beneath the quiet rhythm of daily life, an unsettling unease lingers. That fragile normalcy shatters when village officials appear at her door with a long-delayed notice, and the buried secrets of her past finally begin to claw their way into the light.