Mother’s Baby

Julia, 40, a successful conductor, and her partner Georg, 44, long for a child when Dr. Vilfort, their physician, gives them hope. After successful treatment at his clinic, Julia becomes pregnant. But the birth unfolds differently than expected, and the newborn is taken away immediately. Julia is left in the dark about what has happened. When she finally receives the baby, she feels strangely distant. She even doubts whether it is truly her child.

Through her late motherhood, she is unexpectedly thrust into a world in which she does not find her place. She is pushed into ready-made boxes. She buries a dream. She conforms. She plays along, as is expected of her. Bitterness lies like a sugary coating over the sweet new life that was supposedly promised to her.

MOTHER’S BABY tells of a hidden world, of the social expectations surrounding motherhood, and of the challenge of not losing oneself in the process. The film is not an ordinary drama, but a psychological thriller that plays with visual darkness and the contrast between beauty and pain. Julia’s world begins to blur, and the question of what is real remains.