Caterpillar

Set in a run-down Wellington villa in 2003, CATERPILLAR follows three women living separate lives beneath one leaky roof. Sixteen-year-old Cassie is a blend of bravado and vulnerability, sliding into risky territory as she searches for belonging. Her mother Maxine, 52, is a formidable single parent and filmmaker on the cusp of a long-awaited breakthrough, finally offered a greenlight, if she can land a star. Holding everything together is Huia, Cassie's grandmother, 80, whose life has been defined by quiet service to family and a private obsession with raising monarch caterpillars, dreaming of one day witnessing the legendary butterfly migration in Mexico.