While Vera Drake , Imelda Staunton 's character in Mike Leigh 's movie of that name , is a devoted wife and mother , and while her family life figures prominently in the film , its dramatic crux involves her workaday activities as a clandestine abortionist , '' helping girls out '' in post - World War II London .
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