It's fairly tedious stuff that's compounded by a lack of narrative momentum and an almost aggressively
deliberate pace, with, in terms of the latter, the movie's
slowness ultimately preventing the viewer from working up any interest in (or enthusiasm for) the protagonist's feel - good antics.
Set in the mid-1980s, it builds a thriller - like story of a woman trying to help her friend obtain a dangerous illegal abortion — yet it's a thriller so
deliberate that its very
slowness and lack of movement becomes a major source of tension.