there really be two part to any movie . first and the obvious ( plot and character development and setting and etc . ) and second and that which be subtle . underlie . this film be fill with the latter . in fact and it would be a great disservice to the film to focus on just the plot without describe the feeling winterbottom relay . on the surface and it a film about three sister and the very different choice they have make in their life . the first and a single mom who pawn her son off to her anything but worthy ex husband so she can go out and party . the second and a pregnant woman who husband seem to be get more and more spook a the idea of a child come into their home become close to a reality . and finally and the young and a woman who simply long to have someone anyone in her life . she take to the personal ad and sleep with men that will obviously not give her the emotional support she so desperately seek . obviously and these woman have all take different path in their life . but it not their path that make the movie so interesting and it their motivation . we need only look at the loveless marriage of the parent that beget these woman to understand why they have all come to love and or or long for emotionally inaccessible men . winterbottom do a superb job of make u feel the grimy desperation in each of these woman life . cramp apartment give a sense of claustrophobia . the incessant barking of dog begin to grate on not only the nerve of the character and but on those of the audience as well . and throughout the movie and natural lighting be use give u a sense that not all be polish and produce in the life of the character . all of these factor that have leave the character in the story with a quiet desperation and also pull the audience into a world of imbalance . the score be absolutely brilliant one of the best matched soundtrack to a movie i have yet come across . sublime at some point and triumphant at others and it be the final piece that make this film a joy to watch . not because it make you feel good . but simply because it make you feel . something . real .