The movie is the first full-length US-produced documentary produced on obstetric fistula and does so by engaging a Western audience who know little about this injury and how it affects women. The documentary aims to "challenge the global apathy towards women's reproductive rights by profiling a special group of women who live with obstetric fistula”.

“Obstetric fistula is a childbearing disorder affecting over 2 million women in the developing world.” The film follows women who live at the Niamey National Hospital with the hope of having their fistulas repaired. The hospital, situated in the capital of this landlocked nation, has become a meeting ground for committed western and local doctors who work side-by-side to address the shortage of surgical expertise and resources to cure this affliction and to give fistula-affected women a second chance at living a normal life.

Children, Women, Rights, Health

An obstetric fistula develops when blood supply to the tissues of the vagina and the bladder (and/or rectum) is cut off during prolonged obstructed labour. When this tissue dies, a hole forms through which urine and/or faeces pass uncontrollably. Affected women cannot help but soil themselves. May women who develop fistulas are often abandoned by their husbands, rejected by their communities, and forced to live an isolated existence.

“As the stories of these women unfold in the film, the picture of their personal tragedy transforms into a larger portrait of the challenges to eradicate fistula in Niger. A country where women are being forced into marriage at an early age (as young as nine), becoming pregnant shortly after without access to appropriate prenatal and emergency obstetric care and who are unable to make their own choices about their reproductive health, Niger's strong commitment to alleviating women of fistula is met by tremendous social hurdles, implying a need for concerted efforts into truly recognising, reshaping and reinvesting in women's reproductive rights throughout the world.”