How does it feel to have been pregnant or nursing for 25 out of 26 years of your married life? This and other questions are posed openly and directly in this film, and they expose the consequences of the Biblical commandment "Be fruitful and multiply"-the mother of all blessings-upon the Ultra-Orthodox Jewish women.
We are given a rare opportunity to enter the Ultra Orthodox Jewish woman's world where the center of her life is pregnancy, childbirth, and constant nursing. She doesn't have the freedom to determine the course of her life; she serves God via the womb.
The film follows the stories of 4 Ultra Orthodox women. Yentel, from the Mea Shearim neighborhood in Jerusalem, expresses the pain of her oppressed friends. The personal stories of the other three women are interwoven into Yentel's, as she turns from an obedient wife internalizing the strict social code of her society, into an independent woman who rebels against social conventions.
