Netflix has released the first full trailer for The Child, the Latvian drama from director Linda Olte that arrived on the service on October 12, 2026. The film, which runs 105 minutes, centers on a couple whose decade-long struggle to conceive pushes one partner toward acceptance and the other toward increasingly desperate measures.
The trailer introduces viewers to Zane, played by Agnese Budovska, and Kaspars, played by Raimonds Celms, a married pair in their late thirties who appear, on the surface, to have built a complete life together. They have love, careers, a home, and shared hobbies. What they do not have, after ten years of trying, is a child.
According to the official synopsis, the couple has exhausted a long list of options: fertility clinics, diets, churches, and healers. The toll of that search shapes the film's central conflict. Kaspars begins to make peace with the possibility that his life can be meaningful without becoming a father. Zane cannot entertain that same conclusion. She is prepared, the synopsis states, to go to any lengths to become a mother.
That divergence between two people who otherwise share everything forms the emotional engine of Olte's film. The trailer leans into the quiet erosion of a partnership rather than melodrama, suggesting a character study about how grief over an unrealized future can pull two people in opposite directions even while they remain under the same roof.
Olte directs from a screenplay that keeps its focus tight on the couple, and the film's runtime of 105 minutes suggests a contained, intimate narrative rather than a sprawling one. The drama is presented in its original Latvian language.
Budovska and Celms anchor the cast as the central pair. Around them, the ensemble includes Esmeralda Ermale, Anta Aizupe, Tom J. Benedict, Inara Slucka, Madara Botmane-Vāgentroca, and Andris Keišs. Netflix has not disclosed further plot details beyond the synopsis, and the trailer likewise avoids revealing how Zane's determination ultimately resolves.
As of October 15, the film holds a 0/10 rating on TMDb, a figure that reflects an absence of aggregated user votes rather than a verdict on the film itself. Ratings on the platform typically remain at that baseline until enough viewers log scores, so the number carries little meaning this soon after release.
The Child is categorized as a drama and is now streaming on Netflix. Its arrival continues the platform's practice of bringing European festival-track films to a global audience shortly after their initial rollout, and it places Olte's work in front of subscribers well beyond the Baltic region.
For viewers drawn to stories about marriage under pressure, the trailer positions the film as a two-hander in which the question is not whether the couple loves each other but whether they still want the same life. Kaspars has begun to imagine a future without children. Zane has not. Ten years of clinics, diets, churches, and healers have not changed that asymmetry, and the synopsis hints that the lengths Zane is willing to go to will test the bond the two have spent a decade building.
Netflix has not announced any theatrical components or additional release windows for the title, and no further trailer or featurette has been confirmed. The film is available to stream now in its original Latvian with the platform's standard subtitle and dubbing options.
Source: Netflix Newsroom
