Reproductive Exile

The film tracks the experience of a cross-border patient in the commercial surrogacy industry where we encounter this “reproductive exile” on the road, in her car, obsessed with a machine called ‘Eve’—a scientific prosthetic assigned to her as a personalised organ model who she confides in while swabbing, driving, and injecting herself in a seemingly endless loop. In a drug induced hallucination she imagines her inner body flooding - mirroring a medical state referred to as ‘third spacing’ which is an exaggerated response to excessive hormones in which fluids collect in the interstitial space between cells. In this state of overflow the protagonist experiences her body conflated with the nonhuman others that facilitate her fertility treatment, including the pregnant horse whose urine is a resource material for the drugs she injects daily.