A 52-year-old woman decides to help her daughter and her son-in-law, and gets pregnant with their baby against the will of her hisband, thus swirling the lives of all four of them. A true story from Sofia, Bulgaria, 2017.

Parents decide to help their daughter, who can’t conceive – her father sponsors a third invitro fertilization, and her mother gets pregnant with the fetus, despite her husband’s protest. Human intervention in this delicate matter swings the world of both families into chaos. Whose child is this and how many mothers the baby has are the easy questions in this puzzle, where love, ethics and morality clash with free will, thus creating or destroing a universe.

Zornitsa Sophia is Master of Fine Arts, major in painting, who has presented at 65 exhibitions internationally and, together with the convicts, restored the church and the murals in Sofia Male Prison.
Her debut feature as writer, director and producer is MILA FROM MARS, 2004, with 16 awards, 60 festivals, Bulgarian submission for the Academy Awards and a national box office hit. Following are the documentaries DEATH AND ALL THE WAY BACK, 2005 and MODUS VIVENDI, 2007, and the feature FORECAST, 2009. VOEVODA, 2017, is her third feature film as writer, director and producer and first as actress in the leading role. It premiered at Shanghai IFF and Moscow IFF and is a national box office hit. She has directed 44 episodes in 6 PRIME TIME TV SERIES, the awarded theater play WHEN THE RAIN STOP FALLING and the opera ZAKHARI, THE PAINTER, which opened the season 2019/2020 of National Opera and Ballet in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Her films were selected in over 140 festivals, 40 competitions and received 19 awards, all are distributed nationally, two of them with record admissions and two are distributed internationally. Zornitsa Sophia served as a jury member at Warsaw, Valencia, Plzen film festivals among others and in the Artistic Committee of Bulgarian National Film Center and CEE. She leads workshops and “learning by doing” training on filmmaking in Bulgaria and abroad.

Surrogacy through in vitro fertilization – IVF, is undoubtedly a hot topic. My focus is in the storm whirled by this “intervention in God’s deeds” and its impact on the human relationships. I investigate how this choice of free will resonates in all the four characters, constructing a new universe of unwritten laws.
Through dramedy as our genre, I will touch the cotroversial topics – dramatical for the characters and sometimes absurd when the bigger picture applies. I will use an intuitive and subjective storytelling as cinematic narrative and will bring contrast though music and sound.
I see the potential in this story in provoking ethical, emotional even spiritual questions revealing characters who could overcome all obsticles simply though acceptance.