Guta decided to bear Redrick's child

Guta’s decision to have Redrick’s child is a turning point in their relationship: against her mother’s insistence that she abort, she chooses the child and says she is ready to face whatever comes. The choice makes their future together imaginable without making it secure; the scene ends not with reassurance, but with Guta asking through tears what will happen to them now.

The Choice Against Pressure

Guta tells Redrick that her mother wants her to have an abortion, then immediately makes clear that she does not. She wants to have his child. The revelation catches Redrick so completely off guard that he has walked several steps before understanding what she has said. His stunned response registers the distance between the future she has chosen and the one he had expected—or was prepared to consider.

Her mother’s objections are practical as well as stigmatizing: she says a stalker’s child will be a freak, that Redrick is a wanderer, and that they will never have a real family. His freedom is precarious, since he may be free one day and in jail the next. Guta does not deny those risks. She says she is ready for anything, making her decision an acceptance of uncertainty rather than a promise that their difficulties will disappear.

Redrick’s Response

Guta tells Redrick she can manage without him, but warns him not to come back to her if he will not accept her choice. The ultimatum gives her decision force: she is not asking him to make the choice for her, and she will not allow him to treat her commitment as a reason to drift in and out of her life.

Redrick begins to answer by calling her his darling girl, but cannot continue. A nervous, foolish laugh wells up in him; he laughs while Guta sobs against his chest. The contrast of laughter and tears captures the scene’s abrupt emotional reversal: her announcement first leaves him bewildered, then brings them together in an embrace without resolving what lies ahead.

An Unsettled Future

Through her tears, Guta asks what will happen to them now, repeating the question. The scene offers no practical answer and no assurance that Redrick’s precarious life will become stable. Its resolution is instead a change in what the couple faces: Guta has chosen to have his child, and Redrick has been confronted with the consequences of that choice. Their shared future is newly possible, but remains uncertain.