Maria faces motherhood at 34, putting an inevitable brake on her activity as a writer. Meanwhile, a tragic news story begins to obsess her: a woman named Alice has drowned her 10-month-old twins in the bathtub. It is a turning point, which forces Maria to face her responsibilities and her new role in the private and in the public dimensions. Writing about Alice’s story could save her as well as swallow her into a destructive vortex.

The first impression of a mother who dreams about killing her newborn child is that of unquestionable horror. But for the Spanish director Mar Coll it is an invitation to empathically understand what happens in the intimate lives of women who do not satisfy the canonical characteristics of the loving mother that society takes for granted. Women and mothers who try to exorcise their internal drama, especially when neglected and left alone. Thus Salve Maria contracts in an anguished grip, looking for empathy for a woman who is looking for herself even when the world has put another mask on her.