“Pieces of a Woman”, a new Netflix film is a two-hour drama starring Vanessa Kirby as Martha Weiss, an expectant mother who tragically loses her baby during a home birth.

Martha’s relationship with her husband, Sean (Shia LaBeouf), falls apart as the two spouses grieve in different ways. They also faced with the trial of their midwife, charged for her role in the delivery. As it turns out, several true stories inspired the heartbreaking script.

The concept for the emotional film stems from the pain of the director Kornél Mundruczó and screenwriter Kata Wéber felt after they suffered a miscarriage. Though the couple’s experience differed greatly from what viewers see in “Pieces of a Woman”, Wéber tapped into her desire to withdraw from those around her following the loss.

“I felt that my body had been taken away from me because there were all of these people around expressing their opinions on the miscarriage,” she admitted to AnOther magazine while discussing how the screenplay came to be. “My body wasn’t mine. I had to regain it back through writing, which was like therapy for me.”

The Hungarian, who started her career as an actor and playwright, expounded on her process in a separate interview with Variety. “I wanted to talk about a taboo, which I think really exists. Women who lose their babies are so relegated to isolation,” she explained.

“People around them just don’t know how to deal with these losses and tragedies, both within society and family. That was the origin,” she added, noting that the film explores the contrasting ways in which we process grief.

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Mundruczó also touched on that theme in his director’s statement. “Are we ever the same after a tragedy? Could we have a partner in the free fall of grief, or are we alone?” he wrote. “With Pieces of a Woman, we wanted to create an authentic story about tragedy and learning to live alongside that grief.”

The filmmakers revealed that they met with Hungarian midwife Ágnes Geréb. Agnes got charged with manslaughter in 2009 after the death of a baby during a home delivery. She received a sentence to two years in prison but was later pardoned.

“It was a very political case about the question of who owns your child’s body: the state or you as the woman? And can you decide where you want to give birth or not?” Mundruczó recalled to The Hollywood Reporter.

The pair’s stance on the topic seems clear based on how the movie ends: Martha tells the court that she does not blame the midwife for her child’s death. You can stream “Pieces of a Woman” on Netflix now.

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