“It takes courage to love life,” says Eva, and the pregnant 22-year-old should know. She has a low-paying, unre-warding job, a mother who refuses to see what she doesn’t want to, a father who is losing his mind, and a baby growing within her from a boyfriend who left her. Yet Eva loves life. And when she suddenly realizes that there is a little human being within her, listening to her every word, she decides against an abortion. Little by little, she begins to share her love of life with the child in her womb. With words, music and sounds, she describes the world to her baby, shyly at first, then more and more confidently. Her spirits rise even more when she meets and falls in love with the sensitive Michal, who is perhaps her guardian angel – or a fallen angel. Just as she is reaching an inner freedom, she learns that her delivery will be difficult and that there is a chance her child could die. By now, however, Eva has found the courage to face every challenge: through her unborn child, who responds to her and urges her to go on – for its sake, and for hers.

Malgosia Szumowska Born in 1973. She studied film direction at the Polish National Film School (PWSFTViT) in Lodz. She is one of the youngest members of the European Film Academy.

“This film also tries to describe the relationship between an expectant mother and the baby growing inside her based on the fact that an unborn child is able to hear and perceive sounds in a very early stage of development.”

Filmography
STRANGER (2004), Dokument (2001, c.m / short), The Ascension (2000, c.m / short), Happy Man (2000), Kalesoner (1998, c.m / short), Silence (1998, doc.), Seven Lessons Of Love (1998, doc.), One Day In The Life Of Tomek Karat (1997, doc.), The Soul Has Left The Body (1997, doc.), A Method For Moravia (1997), Women Are Like Flowers (1996, doc.), Before You Disappear (1996, c.m. / short)t)