Ruth is a black nurse who has worked in hospitals delivering babies for more than 20 years. When a young couple come in, it is business as usual - until after the birth, when the husband shows Ruth's supervisor his swastika tattoo, and says that no person of colour is to touch his boy. And Ruth does not. But then something goes wrong and the baby threatens to die. And Ruth is the only nurse available ... About the biggest of themes: birth, death and responsibility.