There are many surprising elements surrounding this short documentary film, beginning with the age of the filmmakers themselves. Mack and Montero were only seventeen and nineteen years of age, respectively, when they began the project at Spy Hop Productions, a local non-profit youth media arts and educational enrichment center in Salt Lake City, Utah. In 2007, Mother Superior was selected from a group of approximately 4500 entries for a screening at the Sundance Film Festival. The film uses a creative and contemporary blend of animation and fast-forward dramatization to represent what the "good mother" should be, should do, and should look like: full-time wife, part-time counselor, doctor, teacher, activist, advocate, and chauffeur who is thoughtful, sexy, gracious and caring. And she should be an excellent cook and positive role model.

The women who speak candidly about the early stages of their drug use describe meth as making them a "better person," a "super woman" who could lose twenty pounds in one week, get more things done, and keep the bathroom tile gleaming. But as the addiction takes control, they become homeless, lose custody of their children, and suffer memory impairment, skin infections, and drug-induced psychosis. The brief scene of a dentist attending to the extreme problems associated with "meth mouth" is a powerful image for drug prevention. An ongoing conversation between the filmmakers as they drive through an upscale residential area is the central structural device of the documentary, which ends with the revelation that Mack's own stepmother is struggling with the addiction.