The story of how a terrifying experience of a leg amputation in a small operating theatre in the Victorian times, gives a woman the opportunity to continue her life.
I wanted to depict the experience of having an amputation in those early days of surgery. How terrifying it must have been for the patients, who had no anaesthesia and no knowledge of what is going on. At the same time, the fact that this operation, with its small survival rates, was the only way to fight death and have a chance to live was something I wished to convey. Also, this film was part of a project for the Old Operating Theatre Museum, and one of the main objectives of the museum was to “bring back the people”. This is why I focused on a female patient and the film is all through her perspective.