Hard Truths

Housewife Pansy is not happy. She is agoraphobic, a hypochondriac and paranoid about animals, birds, insects, plants and flowers. She is confrontational with everyone, especially her plumber husband Curtley and her unemployed son Moses, whom she thinks is wasting his life. Her sister Chantelle runs a thriving hair salon. A single mum, she enjoys life, and lives harmoniously with her daughters Kayla, who works in cosmetics, and Aleisha, a trainee lawyer. Despite initial resistance from Pansy, on Mother’s Day she and Chantelle visit the grave of their mother, Pearl, whom Pansy now accuses of having favoured Chantelle. Pansy is resentful that she was the one who found Pearl dead in bed. Pansy breaks down, and, both upset, they hug in tears.