Karoline (Vic Carmen Sonne), a young factory worker, is struggling to survive in post WW1 Copenhagen. When she finds herself unemployed, abandoned, and pregnant, she meets Dagmar (Trine Dyrholm), a charismatic woman running an underground adoption agency, helping mothers to find foster homes for their unwanted children. With nowhere else to turn, Karoline takes on the role of a wet-nurse. A strong connection is formed between the two women, but Karoline’s world shatters when she stumbles upon the shocking truth behind her work. Inspired by a true story, and directed by Magnus von Horn (The Here After, Sweat) The Gil with the Needle is an unsettling tale about a woman struggling to find love and a sense of morality.
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00:00We have received your letter, where you have received no support, without your husband's death certificate, I'm afraid I can't meet your husband.
00:20A husband doesn't just disappear.
00:22Karolina, who is that?
00:27I'm her husband.
00:31Where have you been?
00:36Where have you been?
00:40So I've got a new life.
00:44She has left us.
00:48The world is a terrible place.
00:51But we have to believe that it's not like that.
00:57Why do you need help?
00:59Who else could do it?
01:20What did you do to your daughter?
01:28You