Mike Leigh writes and directs this award-winning British drama starring Imelda Staunton as a woman who secretly visits women with unwanted pregnancies, helping them induce miscarriages. Imelda Staunton stars as Vera Drake, a woman devoted completely to her working class family. She spends her time caring for her elderly mother and sick neighbour, but also secretly visits women with unwanted pregnancies, helping them induce miscarriage. With this practice illegal in 1950s England, Vera finds her life fall apart when the authorities find out. Mike Leigh’s multi award-winning film is based on true events.