Madame Ida plot
In the early 1950s, fifteen-year-old Cecilia becomes pregnant after being raped by the director of the orphanage where she grew up. In order to hide the pregnancy, the orphanage decides that Cecilia must give her unborn child to Ida, who desperately wants to adopt a child and who lives alone with her maid Alma in an old, isolated country house. Cecilia is sent to live in the house for the duration of her pregnancy, and for a time the three women form a strange family, where they each find respite from their loneliness, sorrow and longing. But with the arrival of the baby, the harmonious circumstances suddenly change.