She reflexively tenses her muscles while he strokes her baby bump and smiles through a swirl of conflicting thoughts at her baby shower. The first half of the film depicts this false paradise in candy-coloured reconstructions, linked up by voiceover from the real-life Ale. Arrested by the police in a motel room shortly afterwards, Ale is now finishing a 13-year prison sentence for child kidnapping. Even if Ale’s story is true, it highlights the level of her desperation, and the power of societal and biological narratives in setting our agendas. Reminiscent of Bart Layton’s The Imposter in its portrayal of unfeasible auto-delusion, A Child of My Own is a refreshing branch-out for true crime stories into less violent, more intimate enigmas.