The Millstone, winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, is an avant-garde celebration of the mother-child bond. Rosamund Stacey is a young, naive woman living in the Swinging Sixties, when sexual liberty is already well advanced. She hides her ignorance behind a fa?ade of independence and has a one-night stand that results in pregnancy. She decides to have the kid rather than have an illegal abortion even though it is still not socially acceptable to be a single mom, and she discovers that motherhood has changed her life.