What is At My Mother's Breast about?

Filmmaker Heather Watson-Burgess has three generations of breast cancer in her family. She has grown up waiting for her mother to become sick with the disease and wondering if she would too. Heather knew there were other women just like her, many of them in her own family: her aunts, her cousins. In At My Mother's Breast, Heather delves into the changes this illness brings in the family and how it can make mother and daughter sisters of a kind.

At My Mother's Breast

Name: At My Mother's Breast
Genre: Documentary

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Who directed At My Mother's Breast?: Heather Watson-Burgess

What is At My Mother's Breast about?: Filmmaker Heather Watson-Burgess has three generations of breast cancer in her family. She has grown up waiting for her mother to become sick with the disease and wondering if she would too. Heather knew there were other women just like her, many of them in her own family: her aunts, her cousins. In At My Mother's Breast, Heather delves into the changes this illness brings in the family and how it can make mother and daughter sisters of a kind.