As the film opens we watch the heroine, Hara (Joy), heading towards a most deviant behaviour.
Hara is 45 or 47 years old.
She steals a baby from a maternity clinic and walks away unnoticed.
It is an act of a total negation of motherhood,
a "sensitive" notion across all societies.
Intuitively and almost dreamily, Hara decides that she is entitled to have
a baby of her own, even if it is really someone else΄s child.
She seems unaware of the harm this causes to the baby΄s real mother.
Or perhaps she simply doesn΄t care.
Her gestures are precise and ellaborated, even though
she is overcome by desire for love.
In her eyes there is no mother for this baby other than herself.
She spends two days with the baby, charging her with enough emotions
to last a lifetime.
When she crosses paths with a criminal who attempts to steal and hurt the baby,
she slays him brutally without thinking twice.
When, she finally gets arrested, she shows no interest in defending herself.
The trial will oppose the two views on this matter.
Society and the biological mother, on one side.
And on the other side stands Hara.
Alone.
Unwilling to take part in the procedures.
The emotions she experienced during her short time with the baby
have made her life worth living,
even if she has to spend the rest of it locked in prison.
Her conviction, her absolute devotion, her dark untold past
make her such an extraordinary personality.
And an extraordinary film.
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