Very French, and enjoyable - though not shaped in the way that a British or American film would be. A highly professional midwife whose hospital is being closed down, and has the option of finding a new job in new commercially-oriented facilities that she doesn't really like, is visited out of the blue by her father's former mistress, who went away when she was a teenager and who doesn't know that the father has died. The ex-mistress is a bit of a sponger and loser, but the drama that an Anglo-Saxon movie would have made of this is mainly left out - instead it's about the complexity of the relationship between the two women, and also of the slowly developing and uncertain relationship between the midwife and the truck driver who has the allotment next to hers.
Really rather good, and this description doesn't entirely do it justice.
Watched on BBC iPlayer via Chromecast.
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