Adapted from Gary Owen's stage work 'Iphigenia in Splott', director Marc Evans' Welsh language drama Effi o Blaenau stars Leisa Gwenllian as the titular Effi, a young woman in a neglected Welsh town who finds herself dealing with an unplanned pregnancy after an encounter with an injured solider.
Tom Rhys Harries and Gavin Lee Lewis also star.
Effi o Blaenau is in UK cinemas from June 19th.
Check out the trailer and poster below.
The official synopsis reads:
The film follows Effi, a young woman desperate to escape a town where the pubs are closed, the jobs have vanished, and her grandmother works night shifts in the local chip shop just to get by. A chance encounter in a Llandudno nightclub with injured soldier Lee briefly opens a door to something better. For a moment, Effi glimpses a life she never imagined — but the reality that follows is far tougher.As she faces the future as a single, unemployed mother-to-be, Effi’s story exposes a stark social crisis: a system with too few maternity wards, too few midwives, and too many impossible choices made out of necessity rather than care.
