[3] The film stars Hazel Doupe as Char, a young woman at odds with her grandmother Rita (Ingrid Craigie) after her mother Angela (Carolyn Bracken) briefly goes missing, only to return soon afterward with a radically changed personality.

[5] An opening flashback scene shows Rita Delaney taking her infant granddaughter Charlotte (“Char”) into the woods, while the baby’s mother Angela protests.

The household is somewhat dysfunctional; Rita is in poor health, Angela is depressed and spends much of her time in bed, and there is no food in the house.

Although Char appears to agree, when she sees Angela bound and gagged and tied to a bed she is appalled.

Char runs out of the house, but is waylaid by the school bullies, who force her inside an unlit Halloween bonfire.

In the final scene, Angela is restored to her true self, and Char makes her a lucky token from twigs "to keep her safe", as her grandmother had once made for her.

The website's consensus reads: "Smartly creepy, You Are Not My Mother engages with a number of thought-provoking themes without sacrificing chills.