The Baby in the Basket

On a windswept Scottish island in the 1940s, the sisters of St Augustine’s convent prepare for an approaching storm when a shivering infant is abandoned on their doorstep. Sister Agnes is convinced the child is a harbinger of evil, and her fervent insistence that the baby be destroyed tears at the fragile order of the community. The foundling becomes a catalyst for fear, splitting loyalties and forcing each nun to confront the boundaries between sin, superstition, and mercy.

When Agnes is restrained and sealed away, the convent’s uneasy calm collapses into chaos as the storm hammers the cliffs and a string of grim occurrences unsettle the sisters’ minds. Strange noises, inexplicable illnesses, and visions blur the line between the supernatural and psychological collapse, prompting some to see demonic design and others to suspect mass hysteria. As daylight fades and the sea pounds the windows, the sisters are left to wrestle with their faith as reality itself seems to fray.

At the heart of the turmoil is Sister Eleanor, whose struggle to atone for past failings becomes the convent’s last hope for survival. Torn between compassion for the abandoned child and the dread that has poisoned her home, she must unpick a tangle of guilt, devotion, and fear to find a path through the darkness. Atmospheric and harrowing, The Baby in the Basket is a tense, claustrophobic tale of belief and doubt, where redemption and terror are separated by the thinnest of veils.