After seven years abroad in Poland, Chinese filmmaker Mo TAN returns home for the Lunar New Year and is quickly pulled back into the emotional gravity of her family. When a fortune teller warns that a mole on her face will bring misfortune, her parents insist on its removal. Mo refuses, but their obsession with her, paired with their fractured relationship and her own failing romance, pushes her to the edge. A breast cancer diagnosis forces her to confront both her mortality and the possibility that fate might be real. Blending raw documentary intimacy with a tragicomic tone, CONFESSIONS OF A MOLE explores superstition, illness,and the inherited wounds between generations, revealing a family struggling to reconnect, understand the past, and rediscover themeaning of love in the shadow of trauma.
