What We Carry

After years of heartbreaking miscarriages, Sala begins to believe motherhood may never be hers. But when tragedy upends her life, an unexpected path to motherhood emerges, shaped by loss, betrayal, and a truth that changes everything she thought she knew. Now she must decide whether she can open her heart to the very thing she thought she had lost.

Film Advisory Content: Grief, Miscarriage, Death, Strong Language, Emotional Pain

Credits
Writer: Lindsay Watson
Producer: Angela Laprete, Wainani Young-Tomich, Lucinda Jane Tarrant
Executive Producer: Julia S. Gouw, Janet Yang, Michelle Sugihara, Hina Barber
Director of Photography: Scott Lee Mason
Editor: Conrad Lihilihi
Production Designer: Julie De Rose
Composer: Johnny Helm
Sound Designer: MelodyGun Sound Studios, Monkeyland Audio, Conrad Lihilihi, Sebastian Hughes
Music: Johnny Helm
Background: Cyndi Mayo, Telana Lynum, Reupena Paopao Sheck, Shereen Balles

Plays in

PACIFIC CINEWAVES

From the perspectives of women and children across the Pacific Islands, these six narrative shorts offer an absorbing exploration of the unwavering bonds that sustain us.