The Rapture

A young, devoted midwife loses control over her life. A masterfully staged, moving drama about the price of a big lie.

The young midwife Lydia has just been dumped by her boyfriend when she meets Milos. They spend their first night together and Lydia immediately believes herself to be in a new relationship. Milos, however, doesn’t want to know anything about it. As a consequence, Lydia starts caring for her pregnant friend Salomé all the more devotedly. When Milos runs again into her by chance after the birth, she tries to entrap him with a devious lie. And since Lydia is unable to clarify the lie, it develops a life of its own that grows increasingly constraining. The young woman plunges ever deeper into an accelerating maelstrom that threatens to swallow up all those around her. - A captivating drama about a person who completely loses orientation and control over her life. Terrifically cast and acted, cleverly narrated and masterfully directed in lightly grainy images.

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