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"Blind, deaf and dumb", this is how Sarah describes the plight of Afghan women. Like most other women in her village, Sarah suffers from TB. Step by step, we will follow the journey of these women, with their fears and joys, from their forsaken villages in the high mountains of the Ghorr Province down to the valley. Going to the hospital means leaving their village for the first time in their lives, walk away from the remedies of the local healer mullah, venture into a modern world where pills and injections are claimed to be more efficient than God’s will. It is also for them a fundamental community experience: for the first time, they will be in a position to freely talk to other women, compare their situations, become aware that they, too, have rights. At the end of her stay, once cured, Sarah vows that if God keeps her alive, she will send her daughter to school.

France - 2005 - 1 h 30 mn - DV Cam - Colour

Director Claude Mouriéras Writer Claude Mouriéras Camera Claude Mouriéras Sound Agnès Szabo Editing Monique Dartonne, Sophie Imbert Music Didier Malherbe, Loy Ehrlich

Production Novaprod OWL, 127 Avenue Ledru Rollin, 75011 Paris, France Tél : +33 (0)1 5333 3353 Fax : +33 (0)1 4474 0759 E-mail : nadine@novaprod.tv Co-Production ARTE France

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