Home: The Country of Illusion

March. 04,2016

Rating：

6.2

Genre：

Documentary

Keywords：

Alzheimer's Disease

Trailer Synopsis Cast

Lilia, a Colombian citizen, has lived in eight countries around the world. Now, at the age of 67, she grows old alone in Portugal, caring for an Alzheimer's patient. The filmmaker asks her mother Lilia if she has found home and if she will ever return to Colombia, her native country she hasn't visited for the past 40 years. HOME is a personal-approach documentary about loneliness and the sense of belonging.

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