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After leaving her daughter Jessica in a small town in Pernambuco to be raised by relatives, Val spends the next 13 years working as a nanny to Fabinho in São Paulo. She has financial stability but has to live with the guilt of having not raised Jessica herself. As Fabinho’s university entrance exams approach, Jessica reappears in her life and seems to want to give her mother a second chance. However, Jessica has not been raised to be a servant and her very existence will turn Val’s routine on its head. With precision and humour, the subtle and powerful forces that keep rigid class structures in place and how the youth may just be the ones to shake it all up.
This domestic drama swaps heavy-handed melodrama for a quiet, stinging look at the invisible labor of nannies in Brazil. It finds its heartbeat in the awkward, yearning friction between a surrogate mother and the child she helped raise from afar.
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Director
Anna Muylaert
Cast
Regina Casé, Camila Márdila, Karine Teles, Lourenço Mutarelli, Michel Joelsas, Helena Albergaria, Bete Dorgam, Luis Miranda, Theo Werneck, Luci Pereira
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The Second Mother
You can watch The Second Mother (2015) on Hoopla with a participating library card.
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8.0/10
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98%
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Director
Anna Muylaert
Cast
Regina Casé, Camila Márdila, Karine Teles, Lourenço Mutarelli, Michel Joelsas, Helena Albergaria, Bete Dorgam, Luis Miranda, Theo Werneck, Luci Pereira
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Watch The Second Mother on Hoopla with a participating library card. Watch The Second Mother on Kanopy with a participating library card. Watch The Second Mother for free on Fawesome. The Second Mother is streaming on OVID. Availability last verified October 18, 2026.