On a violent, stormy winter night, a home birth goes disastrously
wrong. The phone lines are down, the roads slick with ice. The
midwife, unable to get her patient to a hospital, works frantically to
save both mother and child while her inexperienced assistant and the
woman's terrified husband look on. The mother dies but the baby is
saved thanks to an emergency C-section. And then the nightmare begins:
the assistant suggests that maybe the woman wasn't really dead when the
midwife operated: