At 45 years old, Enora Malagre knows she will not have any more children. Endometriosis, a chronic gynecological disease that affects 1 in 10 women in France, has prevented her. With this documentary, she embarks on mourning the motherhood she would have loved to experience, by meeting other women who have gone through it and who will show her that another path is possible.
These women, like Sandrine and Karine, who could not have children, and also women who have chosen not to have children and who claim it as their own. This is the case for actresses Marianne James and Beatrice Dalle, journalist and producer Mireille Dumas, and para-cyclist Marie Patouillet, who have agreed, some for the first time, to address this very intimate aspect of their lives.
Through their testimonies, but also thanks to the insights of historian Muriel Salle and political scientist Francoise, the documentary questions the notion of motherhood as an obligatory passage, and denounces the gaze that society places on women who have chosen to break free from it. By delving into history, Enora seeks the roots of this dictate, both biological (women long considered as walking uteruses) and cultural (the witch, then the spinster, on the margins of society), which has persisted through the ages despite the sexual liberation of the 1970s, despite abortion, the pill, and family planning, up to the present day.
Between rebellion and emotion, Enora Malagre simultaneously delivers a poignant testimony of sincerity and a manifesto for motherhood to cease being, for all women, the only possible fulfillment.
