India, Dec. 19 -- British author Deborah Levy's Hot Milk is a novel that lives inside 25-year-old anthropology student Sofia's head. A memory, in fact, fragmented, sensory and unreliable. Add to that her mother Rose's mysterious illness that occupies the liminal space between caretaking and captivity. Together, the mother-daughter duo spends a summer in Almeria in the south of Spain for Rose to undergo dubious treatments at a wellness clinic.

The book came out in 2016 and this year, Rebecca Lenkiewicz's film adaptation on Mubi made me return to the novel and its introspective detailing of ideas, occurrences, and outbursts.

But here's the thing about introspective narratives - in words, you find relatability, in an audio-visual set up ho...