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Newlyweds Sam Statler and Annie Potter are head over heels, and excited to say good-bye to New York city and start a life together in Sam's sleepy hometown upstate. Or, it turns out, a life where Annie spends most of her time alone while Sam, her therapist husband, works long hours in his downstairs office, tending to the egos of his (mostly female) clientele. Little does Sam know that through a vent in his ceiling, every word of his sessions can be heard from the room upstairs.

They call themselves the May Mothers - a collection of new moms who gave birth in the same month. Twice a week, with strollers in tow, they get together in Prospect Park, seeking refuge from the isolation of new motherhood. When the group’s members agree to meet for drinks at a hip local bar, they have in mind a casual evening of fun, a brief break from their daily routine. But on this sultry Fourth of July night during the hottest summer in Brooklyn’s history, something goes terrifyingly wrong: one of the babies is taken from his crib.

When Maziar Bahari left London in June 2009 to cover Iran's presidential election, he assured his pregnant fiancée, Paola, that he'd be back in just a few days, a week at most. Little did he know, as he kissed her good-bye, that he would spend the next three months in Iran’s most notorious prison, enduring brutal interrogation sessions at the hands of a man he knew only by his smell: Rosewater.

Der Psychotherapeut Sam and seine Frau Annie ziehen aus New York in die verschlafene Kleinstadt, in der Sam aufgewachsen ist. Dort arbeitet Sam fast rund um die Uhr in seiner Praxis im Souterrain mit seinen (fast nur weiblichen) Klientinnen, während Annie zu viel Zeit allein verbringt. Sam ahnt nicht, dass durch einen Lüftungsschacht all seine Therapiesitzungen im Obergeschoss zu hören sind: die Frau des Apothekers, die sich scheiden lassen möchte. Die Malerin mit dem enttäuschenden Liebesleben. All diese Geschichten mit anzuhören, ist unwiderstehlich.

Sie nennen sich die "May Mothers": eine New Yorker Gruppe von frischgebackenen Müttern, deren Babys im selben Monat geboren wurden. Schon in der Schwangerschaft hielten sie über ein Online-Forum Kontakt, nun treffen sie sich wöchentlich im Park, um ihre Freuden und Nöte zu teilen. Als sie eines Abends gemeinsam ausgehen, geschieht etwas Furchtbares: Der kleine Midas wird trotz Babysitter aus seinem Kinderbett entführt. Die Polizei scheint inkompetent. Und während der nun folgenden, quälenden Suche muss sich jede der Frauen lang gehüteten Geheimnissen und unbequemen Wahrheiten stellen.

Își spun Mamele din Mai - un grup de proaspete mămici ai căror copii s-au născut în aceeași lună. De două ori pe săptămână se întâln esc în Prospect Park din Brooklyn ca să petreacă puțin timp împreună. Atunci când femeile ies să bea ceva la barul din cartier, tot ce-și doresc este să ia o pauză de la rutina zilnică. Dar, într-o noapte fierbinte de 4 iulie, ceva teribil se întâmplă: unul dintre copii dispare din pătuțul lui.