Oscar nominee Jessie Buckley and her fellow Irish star Fiona Shaw have been cast in Hot Milk, a mother-daughter drama based on the best-selling book of the same name by Deborah Levy.
US entertainment trade website the Hollywood Reporter says that Buckley and Shaw will be joined by Phantom Thread star Vicky Krieps in the feature debut of playwright and screenwriter Rebecca Lenkiewicz, whose credits include the acclaimed series Small Axe and the Oscar-winning Polish film Ida.
Billed as "an intimate exploration of sex, love and the bonds that tie us all together", Hot Milk follows mother Rose (Shaw) and her daughter Sofia (Buckley) as they travel to Almería in Spain in the hope of finding a cure for the mystery illness that has left Rose wheelchair-bound.
There, Sofia meets an enigmatic wanderer named Ingrid (Krieps) and starts to think of a different life for herself.
"Sofia's increased freedom becomes too much for her controlling mother, and as the hot sun beats down, their relationship simmers with pent-up resentments and bitterness, threatening to tear the fragile threads that hold them together, and leading them to a dramatic conclusion," teases the synopsis.
Filming on Hot Milk will begin in Almería in September.
Buckley is among this year's Oscar nominees for her performance in The Lost Daughter, currently streaming on Netflix.
