The film In Love We Trust portrays the potential challenges that may come with China’s One Child Policy. 

The film starts with a tour woman giving a tour of an apartment to prospective customers. There, she received a call that her daughter was seriously ill. As such, she immediately brought her daughter to a hospital where she learned that her daughter was suffering from a serious, rare cancer affecting her bones. The only way to stop the issue was to have a transplant; However, the only likely candidate to qualify for such transplant was a sibling, which the daughter didn't have. This was the start of the family issues that arose between two families.

The woman’s daughter was born from a different father than her current one, and in order to save her, she needed the new child to be from the ex-husband, not the new husband. Naturally, the new husband wasn't particularly happy about this, and neither was the wife of the ex-husband. However, both families eventually permitted for a child to be born from the ex-husband through indirect means. However, this is a particularly sticky issue for the husband, because this means that the new husband can’t have any of his own children due to the one-child policy.

When the indirect methods for having the child didn't work, the ex-husband and the wife has agreed to have sex in secrecy from their families. However, the husband learned of their act because the wife’s phone somehow accidentally called the new husband without the wife knowing; In which he overheard the conversation between the two.

While this has caused a tension between the new husband and the wife, he has ultimately accepted the wife’s act under the condition that no-one knows of this incident, and that the child and everything else in relation to the child is marked under his name.

I think that while a situation like the one that happened in the film is extremely unlikely, I think it still underscores the tensions that may be caused due to the One-Child policy; If a family has an offspring of theirs have a disease that can be cured primarily through the means of the child’s immediate family members, what is that family to do?