Midwife Lena Lorenz is gradually finding her way back to everyday life. The very pregnant Lilly Waldhauser refuses her help, even though her baby is in a dangerous transverse position. Lilly lives in a group that has formed around the charismatic woman Marthe Gerber. Marthe advocates natural birth and rejects any interference from conventional medicine. But in doing so, Marthe is putting both Lilly’s life and that of her baby in danger.