All people all over the world have a fascinating experience – their birth. In his touching documentary, Gilles de Maistre dedicates himself in impressive pictures to this touching miracle of life. Sensitively portrays pregnant women from different countries and cultures and captures the time and again overwhelming moment of birth – whether it be on a modern maternity ward, in the private living room, in the dolphin pool, in a corrugated tin hut or in the nightly cold of the desert. In an unusual journey around the earth, the first cry is revealed in grandiose images of one of the most beautiful events of life in contrast to the countries, peoples and cultures.