When she writes a letter to reveal her status to Ciaran, she discovers that "torrach", the Irish word for "pregnancy", literally means "to bring a family".
During a class, the English teacher reads "Limbo" by Seamus Heaney, a poem about a mother drowning her baby in the Donegal fishing village of Ballyshannon.
The film ends during the Christmas holidays, with Goretti screaming in pain in her bed, attracting the attention of her parents as the statue of Holy Mary placed in front of her begins to anthropomorphize.
Commenting on her contribution, O'Connor said: It was a film that really attracted me because it dealt with something I had first hand experience of - the horror of being young, single and pregnant in a country like Ireland with such backward views on femininity and sexuality.
[2][5]Harkin explained that the film was the victim of censorship by the "right wing of the republican movement" and that some cinemas refused to show it, while thanks to the funding received, it was possible to broadcast it on television.