Red Clocks

Abortion is illegal, in‑vitro fertilization is banned, and the Personhood Amendment grants rights to every embryo. In a small Oregon fishing town, five very different women navigate these new barriers alongside age‑old questions about what a woman is for. Ro, a single high‑school teacher, is trying to have a baby on her own while writing a biography of Eivv?r, a little‑known 19th‑century female polar explorer. Susan is a frustrated mother of two, trapped in a crumbling marriage. Mattie, the adopted daughter of doting parents and one of Ro’s best students, finds herself pregnant with nowhere to turn. Gin, a gifted forest‑dwelling herbalist or "mender," brings their fates together when she is arrested and put on trial in a frenzied modern‑day witch hunt. Their intersecting stories unfold under increasing legal and social pressure as they confront motherhood, identity, and freedom, and as public scrutiny reshapes private life and choice.