A maternity ward in Marseille, chronically short of hands, becomes the pressure cooker for a nurse whose carefully sealed past will not stay buried. Into The World (2020) is a French drama with a wry comic streak, directed by Marion Laine and led by Sandrine Bonnaire.
What is Into The World about?
Jeanne is an auxiliary nurse on a maternity unit in Marseille. The hours are punishing, the staffing rota never balances, and management keeps asking the ward to do more with less, so Jeanne and her colleagues spend every shift improvising ways to protect the mothers and newborns in their care. At home there is only her daughter Zoé, eighteen and about to leave for university in Paris. Two blows land at once: a tragedy on the ward shakes the whole team, and Zoé's departure empties the flat. With the daily noise gone, something Jeanne has kept hidden for years surfaces, and she is pushed to explain, to herself as much as to anyone, the choices that shaped her life.
About the cast
Sandrine Bonnaire anchors the film, with an ensemble that includes Aure Atika, Brigitte Roüan, Kenza Fortas, Sarah Stern, Alice Botté, Lucie Fagedet and Nadège Beausson-Diagne. Much of the picture lives in the interplay between the ward's women, and the cast plays that working camaraderie with a lived-in ease that suits the setting.
Context & significance
Marion Laine directs, and the choice to set a story about buried personal history inside a maternity ward gives the film its distinctive shape: a place where new lives begin every day becomes the backdrop for one woman confronting how her own life began to go the way it did. It is a French production from 2020, running a compact ninety-one minutes, and it sits in K-Time's catalogue under drama and comedy, the comedy arriving mostly through the sharp, tired wit of the nursing staff rather than set-piece jokes.
Watching Into The World on Ktime
Into The World streams on K-Time with a Persian dub, so viewers who prefer to hear the story in Farsi can do so throughout. Sign in with a K-Time account to start watching; the film page itself is free to browse, and the interface is built for Persian-speaking audiences at home and across the diaspora.