Suspended between fairy tale and social documentary Ice Baby is a series of fragments and narratives exploring young women’s experience of becoming mothers.

On a winter’s night a baby is left locked in a car whilst his mum goes clubbing

In the wing of a women’s prison a young woman hears threats through the wall

‘bad mother, baby basher, baby killer’

When her boyfriend goes away to sea a young girl convinces herself that goblins have taken her beautiful baby in the night, replacing it with something distant and unlovable – an ice baby.

To be developed with teenage girls in Barrow-in-Furness, Ice Baby touches the taboos surrounding our reactions to mothers with life styles and cultures which don’t fit in with our ideas of good parenting.