The story
- Three realities
- Two trauma-inflicted parents
- One daughter left to navigate...
When an explosion rocks a nearby hospital, an expectant mother is immediately thrust into trauma. She responds in one way. Then another. Then another...
- 01
The Perfectionist
A high-achieving path forged under pressure. Excellence as armor against an unfinished wound.
- 02
The Approval Seeker
A life bent toward pleasing others, shaped by a mother's second response to the same blast.
- 03
The Orphan
Raised by a progressive grandmother after another choice. Love rebuilt from what remains.
Imperfect Trails is a Trinidad and Tobago drama about three possible lives of a young woman shaped by one traumatic event: an illegal quarry blast during her birth in 1990, mere months after the attempted Coup. Each path follows a different choice her mother could have made. The daughter grows into a high-achieving perfectionist, a people-pleasing approval seeker, or an orphan raised by a progressive grandmother.
The film links unaddressed trauma with illegal quarrying in Trinidad's rainforests. Healing is personal, and it is also collective.
Written & produced
Maria Kaffie Lewis
Directed by
Ashton Noreiga