When a baby is left in front of a “baby-box“ facility of a church, two men initially try to sell the baby, girls being cheaper than boys! Yet when the mother comes back a whole different story unfolds.

The film shows in an intimate way how family can be family without blood ties. Lives and souls are being protected by a secure environment created by the three adults and an orphan boy around the baby, despite the many different tormented backgrounds.

The main characters are all dealing with guilt in a vulnerable way. In a touching conversation between two adults, one abandoned by parents, the other having abandoned her child, a groundbreaking way of giving ‘forgiveness by proxy’, is screened.

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Festivals

"Broker" by Hirokazu Kore-eda has won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at Cannes 2022. Its leading actor Song Kang-ho was honoured with the Best Actor Award of the International Festival Jury. The Palme d'Or went to "Triangle of Sadness" by Ruben Östlund.

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