★ 2021 威尼斯影展地平線單元最佳劇本
★ 2021 芝加哥國際影展最佳導演

烏克蘭這座女子監獄，允許懷孕的受刑母親生子育嬰，在監管下享天倫之樂。此規定亦有限制，當嬰孩滿三歲，若母親未出獄，孩子無人領養，將移送孤兒院。列莎因殺人判刑七年，如無減刑，母子分離就在眼前。導演以107位服刑母親訪談為底，混合專業演員與真實獄囚、獄警，著重聆聽與觀察，再現獨特封閉環境。

彼得・克雷克斯：「我希望這部電影傳遞出受刑母親們的真實集體見證，不僅透過她們與女獄警的對話，也透過那些沈默的場面，例如當孩子被帶走後，她們絕望地完成生日蛋糕裝飾時的孤獨感；或是當她們短暫忘記身處監獄時，所閃現的片刻快樂。視覺上，這些場面處理得幾乎像是一張照片，像是針對一個獨立時空的一段記憶。我相信，是好奇心決定了我怎麼處理這群女性關係。我沒有要求她們做任何事，我沒有命令她們。我只是觀察與聆聽，看她們願意分享什麼給我，我再把這些轉譯成這部片。」

Lesya, imprisoned for a crime of passion, faces seven years in an Odessa women’s correctional facility. With her newborn, she enters a world filled solely with women—inmates, nurses, and wardens. Uniforms blur identities in this world of wives, widows, daughters, sisters, pregnant women, and children, making it hard to tell who is who.
'I also wanted the film to deliver an authentic collective testimony of the convicted mothers, not only through their conversations with Iryna but also through the silent scenes—the loneliness they feel when their children are taken away and they despairingly finish their birthday cake; the flashes of happiness when the women briefly forget they're in prison. Visually, these scenes are treated almost like a photograph—a memory of a moment independent of space and time. I believe that what defined the women's relationship towards me was curiosity. I did not ask them to do anything; I did not order them around. I simply observed and listened to them, and what they were willing to share with me, I translated into this film.' - Peter KEREKES