Sins of the Mother

Sins of the Mother is a TV movie starring Jill Scott, Nicole Beharie, and Katharine Isabelle. A graduate student is forced to put aside her past bitterness when she returns home to live with her recovering alcoholic mother.
Shay is a young African-American college student whom is forced to take a year off from school to return to her hometown where she struggles with her anger and insecurity when she's forced to confront her alcoholic mother, Nona, whom is currently in AA and a churchgoer, over her entire childhood of abuse and neglect which Shay is both unwilling and unable to let go of.