... of what could have been." Perhaps the most important what is said (based on the true story, the directors, his script, his experience) by the mother who never told it to anyone but now to her distressed daughter. Return to Zero is about loss: return to nothing, to the beginning. What to do. How to cope with it. With a loss. Not once but more than: ... miss carriage. How does people react. However and how: it is wrong. Even the silence. The gaze that quickly turns away. The Governor's female lead is here also the lead: Minnie Driver. When difficulties come the man falls for Another woman. She is not alone with her miss carriage. Maggies mother and many others where and are in 'same boat' - her mother. Nnever told. And the doctor: lost a part of herself that day and the reason to be a doctor. What the miss carriage taught her: to be thankful for what has happened, an experience not many parents are near to.
Celebrating Thanksgiving with the parents and the traditional wishes: and Maggies wish not to Life but grateful to death.
And Maggies wish of divorce, a thought that Aaron is not able to accept but accepting for now a separation.
But then the miracle. Pregnant: the gift of Christmas eve. And again a miscarriage. But the hour together with the stillborn is a memorable moment, unable to forget. "I am afraid, afraid of everything" Maggi says.
Then again pregnant: "I am pregnant" she tell her mother. And her mother: "I lost a baby, too. A year before you. It is a loss and it hurts. It is not the loss of a child. It is the loss av a possibility of what could have been." The pregnancy units the separated parents again. A girl that survives and lives. The mother is not happy, not sad, fell nothing: "I am a bad mother." The doctor understands: "I know. After what you have gone through." The day after Maggie tells of Arthur to her baby girl: "Hello, I am you mother. Difficult, I know. I tell you about a person. His name is Arthur. He is your big brother. He will always be with you. He will see that we are together a long time. Dear, you are so lovely."
The after text: In loving memory of Norbert Krekorian Hanish, born 12 July 2005 - the directors son. And: "For more information and for a film discussion guide, visit returntozerothemovie.com", followed by: This film is dedicated in loving memory to: all the stillborn names. Aaron betrays his wife with a woman: a try to cope with his sorrow. The prepared baby room whitewashes. Whatever one does, says: wrong as the snowflake-gift. 1 of 160 stillborn has no one an answer of its reason: for Maggie and Aaron and all the others) no answering help.
Celebrating Thanksgiving with the parents and the traditional wishes: and Maggies wish not to Life but grateful to death.
And Maggies wish of divorce, a thought that Aaron is not able to accept but accepting for now a separation.
But then the miracle. Pregnant: the gift of Christmas eve. And again a miscarriage. But the hour together with the stillborn is a memorable moment, unable to forget. "I am afraid, afraid of everything" Maggi says.
Then again pregnant: "I am pregnant" she tell her mother. And her mother: "I lost a baby, too. A year before you. It is a loss and it hurts. It is not the loss of a child. It is the loss av a possibility of what could have been." The pregnancy units the separated parents again. A girl that survives and lives. The mother is not happy, not sad, fell nothing: "I am a bad mother." The doctor understands: "I know. After what you have gone through." The day after Maggie tells of Arthur to her baby girl: "Hello, I am you mother. Difficult, I know. I tell you about a person. His name is Arthur. He is your big brother. He will always be with you. He will see that we are together a long time. Dear, you are so lovely."
The after text: In loving memory of Norbert Krekorian Hanish, born 12 July 2005 - the directors son. And: "For more information and for a film discussion guide, visit returntozerothemovie.com", followed by: This film is dedicated in loving memory to: all the stillborn names. Aaron betrays his wife with a woman: a try to cope with his sorrow. The prepared baby room whitewashes. Whatever one does, says: wrong as the snowflake-gift. 1 of 160 stillborn has no one an answer of its reason: for Maggie and Aaron and all the others) no answering help.