I have a memory of a war
movie in which a woman is giving
birth in a tank or a submarine (for whatever reason) and even in THAT situation, the men know better
than she does how to labor — she's forced to lie down and put her feet up in two bandoliers suspended from the ceiling as stirrups.
Inspired by a few facts from Errol Flynn's life, and rooting her story firmly in Jamaican history, Cezair - Thompson vividly imagines the life of Ida, who is little more
than a child herself when she gives
birth to her daughter May, the illegitimate child of 1930 / 40s
movie star Errol Flynn - known as a swashbuckling adventurer on screen, and for his glittering parties and affairs off screen.