Figure 5: Figure 6: Holly Andres, 2016 Aster’s narrative begins with the death of Ellen Taper Leigh, matriarch of the Graham family, whose funerary service is led by a seemingly ambivalent eulogy presented by her daughter, Annie (Toni Collette). Annie confesses her confusing and often times tumultuous relationship with her dementia-ridden mother, claiming that she was a private individual who held many secrets and never shared anything about her interpersonal relationships. A mother to thirteen-year-old daughter Charlie (Milly Shapiro) and sixteen-year-old son Peter (Alex Wolff), Annie spends the course of the film inadvertently exposing the dark secrets of her mother’s life while simultaneously navigating the process of mourning with and without her family.