This is a purely female perspective film, which tells about a series of pains in bereavement, marriage, and family that women bear after giving birth, and discusses how women face the difficulties in life.
Martha lost her daughter during a childbirth. Under the double torture of physical and psychological, her whole body has become numb.
Physiologically, various postpartum symptoms almost made her collapse. In order to prevent leakage of urine, she had to wear special maternity underwear, and when she wore light clothes, there would be lotion oozing out. Psychologically, Martha had to bear the pain of losing her daughter, deal with conflicts with her husband and mother, and was forced to recall those painful memories under the care of her "friends".
In the second half of the film, it gives people a very intuitive feeling. In the matter of losing a daughter, others are "moving", and their anger and concern are very vivid, while Masha is completely "quiet", like a puddle Frozen lake water, she needs to slowly open and freeze. When she lost her daughter, Martha's heart was broken to pieces. After that, her relationship with Sean, and her relationship with her mother were also broken for a while, and her whole life was broken. But in the end, the one who helped Masha out of the pain was the mother who was rejected by her thousands of miles away. She told Masha about the days when her mother escaped from the concentration camp and stole things to feed her. In those days, the most important thing my mother learned was to hold her head up. Now, she hopes that her daughter can hold her head up when fate is strangled by her throat. From grandmother to mother to Martha, this is the power passed down from generation to generation by women, and in the long pain, Martha also pieced together the broken life little by little, holding her head up strong. In court, she announced the withdrawal of the case. She admitted that she had no right to try the midwives. Giving birth at home meant taking risks. The midwives were professional enough to do their jobs, and the rest should not be her fault. At the end of the story, with the arrival of spring and the recovery of all things, Masha's life has entered a new stage. The apple seeds she once treasured have gradually grown into an apple tree, and the little girl who stole apples from the tree has brought Masha new hope. .
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