“This is about maternal power running mad,” said Milligan about Secrets and Lies, which is based on the dark tale, The Juniper Tree. Like Hansel and Gretel and many other stories, this is the story of a murderous mother and nurturing father.

“I don’t know if I would have wanted to be a mother back then,” said Milligan. Although interpreters such as the Brothers Grimm turned the evil mother into a stepmother, original tales recounted mothers who routinely killed their children.

In this image, taken near Blarney Castle in County Cork, Ireland, Mother Nature gives up her secrets, which may in the end be nothing more than lies.