Tea With Friends
An afternoon tea in the park becomes unsettling when a new mother’s friends begin to question her baby, exposing the quiet horror of postpartum anxiety and expectation.
Synopsis
Tea With Friends follows a fragile new mother as she meets two old friends for tea in the park, expecting a gentle afternoon of conversation and familiarity. What begins as polite chatter slowly shifts in tone as her friends begin to sense that something may be wrong with her baby. Concern lingers beneath casual remarks, and the atmosphere becomes increasingly uneasy. As reassurance gives way to scrutiny, denial and anxiety rise to the surface, exposing the pressure placed on mothers to perform calm, confidence, and gratitude. The gathering becomes quietly unsettling, revealing the distance between lived experience and social expectation. Intimate and psychologically tense, Tea With Friends explores postpartum anxiety and the terrifying gap between how motherhood is meant to feel and how it often does.