Maternité is a film about the fatigue of a mother of two small kids The act of selfsacrifice for the sake of a child that absorbs all the time and leaves no space neither for consumption nor for satisfactions or vanity becomes a chance for a devoted woman in a state of the physical and emotional exhaustion to reach the transcendental state close to spiritual ecstasy Lacking resources for a proper functioning her organism starts disassociating information and enters into a seeming madness when the brain is unable to control thought process as usual and because of a total focus solely on a child all the rest in the world ceases to be of any importance freeing her from everything excessive and superfluous
