If a child is born at 24 weeks of gestation, it is in the so-called grey zone. The parents decide whether the treatment should be curative or palliative, in other words, whether it is to be kept alive or gently accompanied until it dies. Daniela Meressa Rusnoková has fifteen minutes to decide. She chooses the former. From that moment on, she, too, is in a grey zone, floundering without orientation in a blind spot of society where the issue of premature births is ignored and undiscussed.
Rusnoková’s film diary of an ongoing extreme state is radically intimate and vulnerable. It makes emotional cycles of pain, guilt, desperation, and anger almost physically tangible as it traces how daily life with a severely disabled child rearranges one’s value system and opens up a different approach to life itself.