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Premiere Date: September 18, 2007

Synopsis

Lumo Sinai was just over 20 when marauding soldiers attacked her in the eastern Congo. A fistula, a medical condition common among victims of violent rape, rendered Lumo incontinent and threatens her ability to bear children. Rejected by her fiancé and cast aside by her family, she awaits reconstructive surgery.

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TAGS: congo, rape, war, women

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Filmmakers

Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt

Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt

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Nelson Walker III

Nelson Walker III

Co-directed by Louis Abelman and Lynn True

Co-directed by Louis Abelman and Lynn True

Spending some time with Lumo, we began to look up to her — not because of the magnitude of her disaster, but because of the warm and mischievous spirit she retained despite that experience.”

— The Filmmakers

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Critical Acclaim

"...[A] colorful, deftly structured documentary [that] confounds expectations."

Variety