在这部真情的代价剧情/犯罪片中,在一个寒冷的暴风雨之夜，交通中断，在佛蒙特州农村的房子中，助产士Sibyl Danforth帮一名难产的妇女接生。清晨，女人死于中风，Sibyl决定做剖腹产手术，挽救孩子。婴儿最后存活了，但母亲死了。Sibyl被控过失杀人罪，出庭受审，她的生活将永远被改变。
It's a cold and stormy night, and in a house in rural Vermont, midwife Sibyl Danforth is, together with the father and an assistant, in the middle of a home birth. As time passes, the woman in labor meets with difficulties and Sibyl concludes that it would be preferable for the woman to deliver her baby in the hospital. Though a dead telephone line and bad weather prevents Sibyl from going anywhere. Black ice and a persistent snowstorm makes transportation an impossibility. Early in the morning, the woman dies from what they believe to be a stroke and in all the chaos, Sibyl promptly decides to do a C-section to save the baby. The baby survives, but the mother is dead and tragedy is obvious. Yet, it's only going to get worse for Sibyl as her assistant is certain that the woman was still alive when Sibyl performed the C-section. Sibyl is charged with manslaughter, brought before the court and her life is and will forever be changed.
