Ruminate

To ruminate means to think to chew thoughts over and over focusing on symptoms of distress their causes and consequences Gemma is in her midthirties a childless woman casually dating living in the big city of London primarily concentrating on work and survival The years have slipped by and the things that have fallen into place for her friends still elude her We follow her over two days never hearing her speak Instead we witness a series of events that question her happiness culminating with her gynecologist revealing she has cancerous cells that could affect her ability to bear children The film shows not tells an uncomplicated poignant and beautiful story about age being human a woman neither a victim nor a victor and the realization that time waits for no one