Two mothers, one baby, zero rules — grief makes monsters of us all.
When a dually-pregnant lesbian couple loses one of the babies in utero, the grieving mothers break their surrogacy arrangement with their closest friends in order to keep the remaining baby.
Acting
Laferriere and Boland shred your heart in sixteen minutes flat.
Direction
Sherren Lee lets silence do the screaming.
Writing
The premise alone guts you; the execution buries you.
Director
Sherren Lee
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made before mainstream queer cinema grappled with messy, unlikable lesbian mothers — Lee's refusal to make anyone 'good' was quietly radical for 2015.
The title names the baby we never meet — the dead twin, Benjamin, becomes the ghost haunting every frame while the living child remains nameless. That's not subtle, that's surgical.
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