Trama

Eva-Maria, who has been in a wheelchair since childhood, likes to let her optimism guide her, also in her wish for a child. An unusually intimate insight into a life beyond conventional family planning.

Eva-Maria works as a secretary at a teacher training college. A position she is very proud of. It was not easy to get this job, because she has been dependent on a wheelchair since her childhood due to spastic cerebral palsy. However, Eva-Maria has never let herself be intimidated. She knows what she wants and how to get it. Without compromise, she wants to create the life she has always dreamed of. One of her biggest dreams: a child of her own. With the help of in vitro fertilization, she now wants to fulfil this wish for herself. Supported by her family and accompanied by her assistants, she tackles "the child project". But her situation is unknown territory for everyone. The peculiarities of her body present new and unfamiliar challenges to both medicine and her assistants. Documented by one of her assistants, this film provides an unusually intimate insight into a life beyond conventional family planning.

Eva-Maria works as a secretary at the University of Teacher Education Tyrol. She is proud of this position. It was not easy to get this job. For a long time, potential employers did not grant her any responsibility. The problem was not her delicate figure or childlike appearance, but her spasticity. Since childhood, she has been dependent on a wheelchair. Her bent fingers and stiff legs overshadow her alert eyes and lively mind.

But Eva-Maria has never let herself be intimidated by these old-fashioned prejudices. She knows what she wants and how to get it. Uncompromisingly, she wants to enable herself the life she has always dreamed of. One of her biggest dreams is to have a child of her own. A partner is something she is less interested in. With the help of in vitro fertilisation, she now wants to fulfil this wish for herself. A step that only a few women with disabilities have dared to take before her.

Supported by her family and accompanied by personal assistants, she is tackling "the child project". The high costs and low chances of success do not stop her. Several attempts fail before she finally gets pregnant.

While Eva-Maria has to look for helping hands, she approaches her family in a new way. After the birth, she temporarily wants to go back to her parents in Upper Austria. Her mother Renate is to help her in the first months after the birth. This step requires precise planning.

The child remains in a breech presentation until the end. A Caesarean section has to be performed, but both child and mother survive the procedure unharmed. Finally, Eva-Maria can hold her firstborn in her arms. But the real journey has only just begun. Within the next year, Eva-Maria, Renate and the assistants have to adjust to a completely new situation. No matter how much everyone involved has prepared, things turn out quite differently. All their worlds are turned upside down.

The film ends one year after the birth. Many things have been different than expected. Not all members of Eva Maria's assistance team could handle the workload as a surrogate parent. But she got her act together with her mother. After many small and big misunderstandings, they are now a perfectly coordinated team. Nevertheless, the goal remains to return to Innsbruck and lead a self-determined life - now with a child.