In the villages nobody openly talks about fistulas, but everybody knows about this “hidden woman’s disease”, as they call it. The women themselves don’t know why they have developed a fistula, but feel ashamed and try to hide it. When they get excluded from society they don’t intervene, because they think it’s their own guilt or fate. Sometimes they seek the help of a fetish or traditional healer – but without result! When you see the situation on-site, 14-years old girls, who’s live in this misery and nobody helps, it really makes you cry!

It’s a shame when giving birth to a child, the most natural thing for a woman, becomes a highly life-threatening thing. For every woman who dies in childbirth, another 20 are injured, eventually developing a fistula. But because the victims are born with three strikes against them — they are poor, rural and female — they are invisible and voiceless, receiving almost no help neither from their government nor from the developed world. 
With this film I would like to give these women a voice and raise awareness for their problem in Western countries.

It’s a shame when giving birth to a child, the most natural thing for a woman, becomes a highly life-threatening thing. For every woman who dies in childbirth, another 20 are injured, eventually developing a fistula. But because the victims are born with three strikes against them — they are poor, rural and female — they are invisible and voiceless, receiving almost no help neither from their government nor from the developed world. 
With this film I would like to give these women a voice and raise awareness for their problem in Western countries.