Stepping into the shoes of a mother raising a child with severe mental health issues, as Mare did, was. (Mare’s son, Kevin, had struggled with depression and addiction before taking his own life.) Ms. Winslet met with parents who had been through it all, and worked with a grief counselor. “I remember seeing — and actually it broke my heart — a man with the most beautiful face and a beard. He had been amputated from the knee down on his right leg, and he was injecting into the toes of the other foot.

Source: New York Times May 31, 2021 20:12 UTC