A young woman sits at a warm kitchen table at night with a mug and a white instant camera while her aunt watches from the counter.

My Mother Called Me a Liar 2026

Elena lets her younger boyfriend stay in the house she shares with her seventeen-year-old daughter, Maya. When Maya tells her mother she does not feel safe with him, Elena calls her jealous, and Maya moves in with her aunt.

Ten episodes. Five minutes each.

Synopsis

Elena lets her younger boyfriend, Daniel, stay in the house she shares with her seventeen-year-old daughter, Maya. He buys Maya an expensive lens her mother does not know about, messages her when Elena is out, and walks into her room without knocking. When Maya tells her mother, Elena calls her jealous and asks her to apologize. Maya moves in with her aunt Nora, who finds the family Daniel lived with before. Elena has to decide whose version she believes.

Status
In production
Format
10 episodes
Runtime
5 min each
Aspect
9:16
Language
English

Episodes

  1. A key with a red tag hangs on a hall hook beside an open blue front door; a brass key lies on the table below.

    01 The Spare Key

    Daniel moves in for a few days with his own key and ends Maya's first day by walking into her room without knocking.

  2. Across a kitchen table, a man hands a woman an instant photograph of two women sitting together in the same kitchen.

    02 Just Between Us

    Daniel gives Maya a lens in secret and keeps texting her, so Maya screenshots the messages and tells Elena she does not feel safe with him.

  3. A woman with folded arms stands in a kitchen doorway, listening to a man whose face is out of focus.

    03 Jealous

    Elena asks Maya if she is jealous, hears Daniel deny everything, and tells her to apologize, so Maya packs a bag and leaves with her aunt Nora.

  4. A young woman sits at a warm kitchen table at night with a mug and a white instant camera while her aunt watches from the counter.

    04 A Place to Go

    Maya closes her own door for her first night at Nora's, and the next afternoon Elena finds the receipt for the lens Daniel said he never bought.

  5. 05 The Other Daughter

    Nora calls the woman in the old photo with Daniel, and her daughter Sophie, now twenty, says he did the same thing to her.

  6. 06 I Believe You

    Elena comes to Nora's door to apologize, hears what Sophie went through, and goes home with her sister to tell Daniel to leave.

  7. An empty key rack on a hall wall at dusk, the blue front door closed behind it.

    07 The Missing Key

    Daniel's key is on the table and the red-tagged spare is gone from its hook, and that evening the doorbell camera shows him opening the front door.

  8. An older woman and a teenage girl sit across a kitchen table at night, a phone lying face up between their mugs.

    08 The Whole Conversation

    Daniel's cropped screenshot makes Maya look like the one keeping secrets, so Elena puts it next to the full thread Nora saved and does not reply.

  9. A woman in a grey cardigan raises her knuckles to knock on a closed bedroom door in a dim hallway.

    09 The Door She Closed

    The locks are changed, Daniel's boxes go out through a third party, and Maya hands her mother a sealed envelope to open later.

  10. A young woman holding an instant camera looks at her prints in a school corridor while her mother waits at a distance.

    10 Knock First

    Three weeks later, Elena shows up at Maya's photo show and waits to be noticed, and that night she knocks at a closed door and waits.

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