
Letting Go
Rosa Monckton has spent years campaigning for people with learning disabilities, and here she turns the camera on her own family as her daughter Domenica, who has Down's syndrome, finishes school and faces the transition into adult life. The film follows that leap alongside three other young people with learning disabilities and their parents, watching each family work through the same unglamorous questions: where to live, what kind of work or day placement is realistic, and how much independence is actually achievable once the structure of school disappears. Monckton's own history as an advocate gives her conversations with the other parents an unusual frankness, two people who have already had these arguments with local authorities and each other comparing notes with families just starting them. There is no single crisis driving the film; the drama is cumulative, built from small decisions about jobs, housing, and supervision that determine whether these young adults get an independent future or a managed one. It stays close to the families rather than the policy debate around them.