Danish film Madame Ida celebrates its world premiere at the ongoing 42nd Torino Film Festival and will have its national cinema release on December 2.

In the early 1950s, the orphan Cecilia has become pregnant. To conceal the pregnancy, the orphanage decides that Cecilia is to give away her unborn child to Ida, who desperately wants to adopt. Cecilia is sent out to live with Ida and her maid Alma for the duration of her pregnancy, and for a while the three women constitute an odd family, where they each find respite for their loneliness, sorrow and longing. But with the arrival of the baby, the harmonious circumstances suddenly change.