Wow, so deep...

I am sorry you didn't like it. I enjoyed it though. I liked that through Emanuel's relationship with Linda, she was given an opportunity to see what life would have been like if her mother had survived labor and Emanuel had died instead. Linda was such a broken and lost character that our protagonist realized that there is perhaps greater suffering to be experienced by her mother than the guilt Emanuel feels over having survived.

I think a really interesting twist would have been if Linda pretended to realize her baby was a doll at the end of her date the pharmacist and accused Emanuel of having killed her child. How the heck would she be able to explain that to the cops. That would have made for a pretty cool thriller, but they went a different route.