Nina, an obstetrician-gynecologist working in the only hospital of a provincial town in Georgia, is unconditionally devoted to her patients, even if that means crossing the line legally or socially. But after she is accused of negligence, she will be forced to question her choices.

Storm clouds darken fields of rapeseed and livestock shrink from torchlight in Dea Kulumbegashvili’s unblinking second feature, named after the cruelest month. Resolutely formalist in its depiction of moral courage, April reckons with male violence and salvific endings in the season of new life.