An older woman is driving recklessly with a younger, pregnant woman in the passenger seat.
We see the older woman in a hospital, hurriedly speaking to hospital staff and pointing at the car.
We see the younger woman on a stretcher. The women are holding hands anxiously.
The hospital staff wheel the younger woman into the operating room. The older woman stays back.
There's a flurry of activity in the operating room.
Eventually, the doctors lift the baby out of the woman.
Her eyes flutter a few times, then close.
FADE TO BLACK
FILM TITLE: MAMA
OPENING
We see the younger woman, heavily pregnant, drawing something in her journal.
We hear a voiceover.
"My name is X and I just found out I'm pregnant. I started this journal to document my experience. If somehow I manage to lose it, and you find it, please return to ..."
With this voiceover, we're transported to when the younger woman first finds out she's pregnant.
For the next couple of minutes, we experience her pregnancy journey through illustrations in the journal. Each illustration transports us into a different story, told cohesively as a montage.
How did her body change? How did work change? Where did help and advice come from? What interesting things did she learn? What moments were memorable?
The goal with this montage is to share a peek into the internal world of young mothers and what first-time childbirth can feel like. The film is very much about the woman.
After the pregnancy montage, we zoom back to her in present time, scribbling her most recent journal entry.
She closes the book.
FADE TO BLACK
We return to the opening scene, driving quickly to the hospital.
The women don't look alike, and it's not clear what their relationship is. This is intentional so as to make the story as universal as possible.
We see the younger woman being lifted on to the stretcher.
We see the older woman pacing in the waiting room.
We return to the operating room to watch her give birth.
The childbirth montage is very detailed. The goal (much like the pregnancy montage) is to educate people on what childbirth feels like from the perspective of the woman.
When it's over, the doctor hands over the baby to the new mother. There's a twinkle in her eye as she collects here newborn child. We don't see the baby.
The image (of the mother's face) turns into an illustration (as in the journal).
Credits roll.
END