Clusterfuck

Clusterfuck is a deeply personal project about the importance of connection, the mental and physical challenges of single parenthood, the strength of human resilience, the discovery and formation of self, and the healing power of acceptance.

It is a story about home, survival, motherhood, love, identity, belonging, grief, loss and being human told through the events of business ventures and near-bankruptcy, separation and single motherhood, a life-saving alter-ego, the death of a parent, a brain tumour, COVID and coming out.

It is the story of the journey my little family and I took together. A multi-layered traumatic decade which we are only beginning to unpack and sort as a one-parent family, with all its generational trauma, sadness, joy, elation and hope

…a snapshot of the events that pummelled and shaped me, the fires that singed and burned me, reduced me to ashen cinders, and the inner discoveries and realisations that saw me cheat death, in the end, to be able to restore and transform myself, fusing my broken body and mind together to re-emerge, irrevocably changed.”

Rose Ottavi-Kokkoris