In the twenty-first century when mothers are frequently styled as their daughter’s ‘best friend’ and confidante, feminist writings on motherhood continue to construct mother–daughter relations as problematic. Deborah Levy, a contemporary writer with an experimental bend, mobilizes Hélène Cixous’ famous essay ‘The laugh of the Medusa’ (Signs 1(4):875–893, 1976), and in particular the line, ‘It’s up to you to break the old circuits’ to explore embodiment, female rage, abandonment and co-dependence in her most recent work, Hot milk (Penguin, London, 2016). This chapter explores the conditions of maternality in the twenty-first century as a replay of ‘the drama of the gifted child’ (Miller, The drama of the gifted child. Faber and Faber, London, 1979) which requires ‘morphing together’ as an antidote to female victimhood.