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To flee from their country's extreme poverty and provide for their family's survival, women from Sri Lanka leave their country to work as servants in the Middle East, and particularly in Lebanon. Lebanon, a population of four million, 800 000 immigrated workers among which 150 000 are from Sri Lanka. Most of the time these maids find themselves in situations worse than back home, deprived of their passports, locked up in houses, working for countless hours, etc. All this for 100 dollars a month. Once there some of them choose to run away, others follow the path to suicide. Another kind of modern slavery, denounced by this film.

France / Lebanon / Belgium - 2006 - 52 mn - HD • 16/9 - Colour

Director Dima al-Joundi Camera Fouad Sleiman Sound Abed Itani Editing Catherine Poitevin, Jean-Michel Perez Music Toufic Farroukh

Production Les Films du Soleil, 39, av. de Saint-Barnabé, 13012 Marseille, France Tél : +33 (0)4 9149 1400 Fax : +33 (0)4 9134 2470 Co-Production France 3 Corse, Crystal Films, Panache Productions, Fugitive Productions

Sales Les Films du Soleil, 39, av. de Saint-Barnabé, 13012 Marseille, France Tél : +33 (0)4 9149 1400 Fax : +33 (0)4 9134 2470