'A disturbing drama about a young mother who bashes her baby. The woman is lonely, cannot cope with her domestic responsibilities, and does not want her third baby. She desperately needs help, but her mother, husband, doctor, neighbour and clinic sister do not understand - until the baby ends up in hospital with a fractured skull.'
Source: Screen Australia. (Sighted: 22/5/2014)
According to 'Ian Horner's Movie Guide' in the Australian Women's Weekly, this was one of 'three (so far) socially conscious telemovies made by the Tasmanian Film Corporation and the Nine Network': the others were Round the Bend and Slippery Slide.
Source:
'Ian Horner's Movie Guide', Australian Women's Weekly, 24 September 1980, p.228.
