MATERNAL FILIGREE is obviously vision rising thru inwards... it trembles like poetry, music - its rhythms OF and-at-one-with the experience itself. You have stitched a meaningful weave of symbolism throughout but always in the sense 'make it new' (as Pound translates the Chinese), so that symbol rubs and clashes with symbol, so that each is always vibrant, so that no symbol could harden midst the frets and stops of your 'music' - that symbols be felt beyond any set to of understanding... that none of them be ever anything like pomposity/(the known) but rather always sensual." Stan Brakhage. 　　MATERNAL FILIGREE began as an exploration of life in the female body, and led me astray. The film finally led me back to the original question.

While on vacation in Bermuda, a pregnant woman must search the island for her politician boyfriend after he goes missing from the resort they are staying.

A teenage girl who sees her mother shot goes into hiding with a police detective who grows attached to her as she protects her from the killer who is hunting the girl. Laura Mennell, Karin Konoval, Marcus Rosner star.

A pregnant doctor's life is made hell by the deranged patient to whom she gave a hysterectomy, without the patient's consent.

Todd Haynes, who considers Max Ophuls’ THE RECKLESS MOMENT (1949) one of his ten favorite films of all time, gives a wonderful 22 minute introduction of the film, titled "Maternal Overdrive," a term he uses to describe the state of the protagonist, Lucia Harper (Joan Bennett).