A Day in the Death of Joe Egg

Bri a schoolteacher and his wife Sheila have a 10-year old spastic child named Josephine who is completely helpless and utterly dependent. Bri hides behind irony and sarcasm. Sheila believes the child is her penance for a promiscuous past and soldiers on devotedly with their little Joe Egg. Well-meaning family and friends offer sundry solutions everything from adoption to euthanasia but ultimately Bri finds he cannot continue and leaves Sheila and Joe behind.-4 women 2 men