Lost in Utero

I watched the short film The Big Empty starring Selma Blair. The story features Alice, a young woman with an ‘inner ache’ coming from her vagina. In search of a cure for the ache, she goes from gynecologist to gynecologist with no luck... until she meets the Specialist.

In the story, Alice’s vagina/uterus is perceived as an icy tundra where no one can live and nothing can grow. I’m curious to see how others have interpreted this, as I have a few ideas of my own.

Read the original story The Specialist by Alison Smith here. aaannnd watch the 2005 movie adaptation.