12 Weeks is about Alice, a successful, career-oriented 40-year-old who grapples with an unexpected pregnancy, its impact on her life and interpersonal relationships, while also seeking an illegal abortion in the strongly Catholic country. Yet, Sunshine resists defining 12 Weeks as an abortion film – the label is too “sensationalist” and “festival bait” – to her, the film is more so about modern womanhood in the Philippines.