A child's friend is accosted by a flasher so she decides to go to the police herself; a film crew sets out to find the old traditions and discovers a grandmother living alone in an abandoned village; retired cleaning women are found raped and strangled in a small town. The innovative structure of Mothers highlights the delicate nature of truth and fiction, of drama and documentary.

"This is a modern multinarativ, three stories, which are a cross section of human destinies, one of our version of Crime and Punishment of the 21st century," said recently the director Manchevski.