A teenager dies from childbirth and the midwife who delivered the child steals the mother's diary in the hopes of contacting the baby's next of kin. The diary leads her to the Russian Mafia, who doesn't have the least interest that the diary be read by an outsider.
It mixes social critique with melodrama, like the other film I saw from this screenwriter (Dirty Pretty Things); unlike that one, however, this one is entertaining, although the plot has a few implausibilities. One thing that bothers me is the use of suicide in fiction films, which has usually very little to do with how and why suicides happen in real life (note: this film doesn't have any suicide, just the manifestation of an intention).
Rating: 53
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