Newly-qualified midwife Mary experiences the most challenging night shift of her career as she oversees two life-and-death pregnancy cases on an understaffed and under-resourced NHS maternity ward. Showing the great physical and psychological pressure placed on frontline workers at this time of incredible strain on the NHS and maternal healthcare – and specifically the contemporary British midwife – ‘Delivery’ challenges whether these vocations can be sustainable given the daily sacrifices needing to be made by so many.