Birth in France as undergo revolutions as in no other countries in the world. For the first time, a film will tell us this story: from the painless delivery technique of Fernand Lamaze to the birth without violence of Frederick Leboyer, from the experimentations of the 70's to the epidural...

80 years of a story that started in the 30's when the state gave the doctors the mission of fighting against child mortality. An incredible progress, which is also the story of a progressive dispossession for women of this intimate experience.