A Bump Along the Way

A single 44-year-old mother is trying her best to raise her teenage daughter properly, but ends up with a bun in the oven herself after an impulsive one night stand in this charming rom-com from Northern Ireland.

Pamela works hard to provide a good upbringing for her daughter Ally after the father left. In spite of hardships, Pamela is an incurable optimist who enjoys a night of fun. To cap a drunken night, she ends in bed with a young man whose name she quickly forgets. Ally is used to her mother embarrassing her but the unexpected pregnancy is hard to handle, and for Pamela the new situation means additional financial and moral dilemmas. In her directorial debut, Shelly Love presents a refreshing portrait of a charming mother-daugher relationship, turning the amorous entanglement into a heart-warming comedy with lots to say about conservatism in Northern Ireland.

• Olle Agebro