’Don’t tell my mother’ is Sarah Moon Howe’s personal account of the inaccessible world of strippers, in which she ended up at twenty-two, looking for her own definition of femininity.
Starting from super8 B/W images, which she filmed during her career, and colour reconstructions the story is told in smooth diary style of friendships between strippers, the sense of power given to them by the watching men, a trip to the United States – the Mecca of striptease –, where the Miss Exotic World election is held, also attended by some ‘exotic dancers’ from the 50s.