A personal documentary not quite like any other, The Wolf Suit follows the journey of a filmmaker as she tries to uncover the truth about the past. The film opens with a contradiction between the director Sam Firth’s happy childhood memories and her parents’ accounts of what was happening at the time. Sam uses a range of different devices to prompt different memories, interviewing her parents, looking at family memorabilia and returning to her childhood home. Her parents’ hint at a deeply troubled marriage sometimes and the secrets Sam Firth is trying to expose are often hiding in plain sight. Stories that are sometimes quite dark have become so familiar they have become “just stories” hollow of meaning or normalised as funny anecdotes. So, Sam does something drastic, she hires a set, employs actors, a production designer and a film crew and recreates scenes she has written based on her parent’s accounts. Filming takes place with her parents present and they are invited to comment on the truth of what they see and even direct the actors themselves. Stories she has heard repeated over the years quickly fall apart, other suddenly gain meaning and emotional resonance. It becomes clear that her mother’s mental health was worse than she previously recognised and that the relationship between her mum and dad was, at times, abusive. Her father’s previous misogyny is laid bare. There is however, reconciliation, apologies and forgiveness. It becomes clear the film is exploring far more than just the past of one family, but what it means to remember and tell stories of our lives and the importance of sharing different accounts even when they do diverge. Sam is forced to confront the ways in which we construct the stories we want to and the film itself becomes a vehicle for coming to terms with unwanted aspects of the past. The film becomes a metaphor for remembering. It shows us the importance of questioning our narratives and allowing them to change and demonstrates the role of theatre, film, and other public forms storytelling in exploring truths about the past. Ultimately the film is a profound look at the function and nature of storytelling in our lives.