Trust in Babies

The film trust explores a young woman's transition to womanhood, and how much sooner it happens for women than it does for men. Every single woman in the film has some kind relationship with babies, and the relationship for most started when the women where teenagers. For several of the characters, they were pregnant when they where teens, oftentimes by obligation, and therefore forced to start their adult life before they had even finished their teenage years. The film almost seems to view pregnancy as a right of passage for women to understand just how difficult it is for them to experience a long, uninterrupted adolescence. Maria's sister's friend and Maria's mother both used the pregnancy to get what they wanted, so pregnancy ended up giving them some sort of agency, although it was a shadow of the freedom they had before they where pregnant. Maria's sister becomes trapped, her children are taken away from her by divorce, and she misses them, but she also gains freedom by not having them around. The woman who stole the baby at the convenience store is a victim in a whole different kind of way. She believes a baby will make her happy, and not being able to have one allows society to hold her hostage, as she believes she will never be happy until she has a child.