My Underground Mother

Film at Lincoln Center

New York journalist Marisa Fox's absorbing and intimate debut documentary delves into her mother’s secret past, uncovering revelatory details about her life as a spy and freedom fighter against the Nazis. The film presents a story of female empowerment during World War II and a contemporary journey of a woman coming to terms with a parent’s unreconciled legacy, expanding to show one woman’s refusal to be defined by trauma.