Pictures of Us

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'Life isn't meant to be planned, it's meant to be lived.'

Maggie Apperton is a woman with time on her hands. She's 62 and retired. Her children have grown up and moved away, and her husband Marcus spends most of his time running the family business.

Fighting boredom and loneliness, Maggie starts a lunch club that meets once a month. To the other women in the club, her family looks functional enough - Isabel writes to her parents from her home in Paris, Patrick visits regularly to play with the family dog, and Marcus has built a company that provides the money to do whatever he and Maggie would like. But in this family, there are things that are never discussed.

PICTURES OF US explores what happens when a family is irrevocably changed as its long-guarded secrets begin to surface.

In this intimate look inside one family, Todd Alexander captures the emotional fallout that can occur when faced with the question: what if my family isn't what I think it is?

This is a powerful exploration of whether loved ones will forgive almost anything of each other and how far the bond between parents and children will stretch before being shattered forever.