night, Mother 1986 What would you do if someone you loved sat down with you one night and calmly told you that they were going to end their life before morning This is Thelma Cates dilemma Her daughter Jessie has had it A middle aged epileptic unable to drive or hold a job, with a failed marriage and a drug addicted runaway son on the wrong side of the law, Jessie can find no reason to keep living Adapted from the play by Marsha Norman, night, Mother is the story of a parents worst nightmare How can Thelma convince her daughter that life is worth living if she cant feel her pain How can she end her daughters embrace of death before morning