Brutal is a psychological horror about a mother named MAYA who absent-mindedly leaves her 8 week year old baby outside a grocery store. When she rushes back to retrieve the child, she discovers it’s been kidnapped. The film then plummets into the mother’s psyche as she’s forced to navigate a 15 story high tow- er block in order to save her child. What we begin to discover in this surreal and disturbing landscape is that the baby was a result of a rape, and Maya cannot save herself from the trauma of such a horrific event and therefore cannot save the baby.