Paule Ducharme

Set in the mid-sixties, Maman est chez le coiffeur focuses on teenaged Élise. Her principal instructors are her father, the local doctor, and her mother, a frustrated career woman and part-time journalist. When a frustrated Élise is disciplined, she begins meddling, sparking her mother's abrupt and angry departure. While the impact of this absence is disastrous for them all, it is especially devastating for Élise, who is now forced to care for her father and brothers. (tiff08.ca)