Like Normal People

Like Normal People is a tender, often hilarious and thoroughly unforgettable family drama, charting a constellation that revolves around an off-kilter centre: Lena, who although she is forty-five remains locked in childhood. It is set on the day that Lena sets fire to her room, absconds from her residential home and decides to take her troubled adolescent niece, Shelley, to the beach. Lena's mother, Ella, goes in search of them, and in the process relives her own life's dreams and disappointments. Moving deftly between past and present, Karen Bender enters the consciousness of three women at different stages of life, each on a private search for love and acceptance.