The Rules Of Conception

“While I’m watching, the little boy reaches up and gives his mother a big smacking kiss on the cheek. She tickles him and he laughs hysterically before being so tired that he puts his arms around her neck and closes his eyes. And it hits me right then and there, while sitting on the bus, looking at the little boy’s chubby arms and sleeping angel’s face. I am not going to miss out on that.”

Rachel Wood is ready to be a mother. She’s got a great job, a good income, a beautiful inner city apartment, a great group of supportive friends. All she needs is a father to have the child with.

But go-getter Rachel won’t let a little thing like that get in the way of her dreams. She starts investigating different options to become pregnant: co-parenting, adoption and anonymous sperm donors. She finally settles on a method of conception — using a known donor — and chooses the biological father for her child. Digby is a single, softly-spoken Canadian with a complicated family background, who wants to have children but not have a child.

After a few attempts, Rachel is able to conceive and begins to dream about the kind of life she will create for her and her child. But the well-established foundation for her dream soon begins to develop cracks. Lyndall, her nightmare boss, is becoming even more obsessed with ruining Rachel’s career; a desirable, but undeniably married, colleague is beginning to show inappropriate interest and the stress of her impending new life is starting to take its toll on Rachel’s health. Now Rachel is beginning to question if she should have followed the rules of conception after all…