»Pregnancy is traditionally a world in pastel. Softness, lightness, inherent kindness. And yet here I was experiencing an unexpected vividness and intensity. Inexplicable sadness. Food revulsion. Neon blissful ecstasy. Annoyance. Rage! It was nothing like what I had ever seen portrayed on screen,« says director and main protagonist Alice Lowe. And so she created the heavily pregnant Ruth, a woman overwhelmed by fury when she talks to her unborn child. Her husband has died in a tragic accident. Ruth is angry, lonely and hurt and holds other people responsible. Intent on revenge, Ruth goes on a murderous rampage. This slasher comedy with blackest British humour turns a revenge film into »Prevenge«. Egged on by the unborn baby in her womb, Ruth turns into a serial killer: bloody, brutal and in a variety of outfits and roles, she uses a kitchen knife to slash men and women who aggravate her at a particular moment or who are on her list anyway: chauvinist bastards, neoliberal business women and aggressive sports jocks. In the meantime, she makes regular visits to her gynaecologist who reassures her: »Baby will tell you what to do.« Birth is a bloody affair.

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