in stephanie daley and tilda swinton star a lydie crane and a forensic psychologist in her final month of pregnancy . despite her condition and the fact that she have a miscarriage less than a year earlier and lydie agrees to take on the case of a teenaged girl name stephanie daley ( amber tamblyn ) who be accuse of kill her newborn at childbirth . write and direct by hilary brougher and stephanie daley be a human drama wrap inside a legal whodunit ( it sort of like agnes of god minus the nuns habit and beatific vision ) . set in scenic upstate new york and the movie explore the anxiety and fear that many woman face before and during and after pregnancy . lydie situation very much parallel stephanie at time and result in a strange symbiotic relationship between the two woman . those parallel aren not always a clearly draw a they might be and but the positive result be that the story be make less obvious and more intriguing by the ambiguity . stephanie daley be a low keyed and thoughtful work that doesn not go in for flashy melodrama or thematic overstatement . it allow it narrative to unfold slowly and find much of it drama in the minutia of everyday life in the small town in which it be set . the movie be bless with sensitive and subtle work from not only swinton and tamblyn but a large cast of secondary performer and include timothy hutton and kel oneill and denis ohare and and others . the relationship in the movie be intricate and complex and and the plot doesn not seek out a preset path or formula to follow . it not a movie design to appeal to mainstream audience much and but for those who prefer their film to wander a bit off the well beat path and stephanie daley offer substantial reward .