ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the film "A Common Thread" Brodeuses to illustrate how complex the journey can be to being able to become mothers. Rarely has a film managed to explore this dimension with both delicacy and versatile depth. The possibility for a woman to think of herself as a mother represents the end of a growth path and implies she has achieved a separation from her own mother with whom she can identify without fear of being incorporated but remain sure of her individuality. The chapter highlights the difficulties that young girls sometimes encounter in dealing with their creativity, and the close relationship that seems to exist between this and the problems that have characterised relationships with their mothers. The film tells the story of the adolescent, Claire, who is expecting a child whom she does not want, the result of an affair with a married man.
