1 00:00:01,008 --> 00:00:03,758 (paper flipping) 2 00:00:06,106 --> 00:00:08,856 (dramatic drums) 3 00:00:12,304 --> 00:00:14,637 (screaming) 4 00:00:42,648 --> 00:00:45,148 (light music) 5 00:00:52,750 --> 00:00:56,763 - I still remember my days in Aberystwyth. 6 00:00:58,200 --> 00:01:01,090 Many many years ago I graduated from the oldest 7 00:01:01,090 --> 00:01:04,570 university in Wales and home to the oldest school 8 00:01:04,570 --> 00:01:06,970 of international politics in the world. 9 00:01:06,970 --> 00:01:09,880 I'm really glad that Aberystwyth is able to 10 00:01:09,880 --> 00:01:13,970 host this grand award ceremony today... 11 00:01:13,970 --> 00:01:16,110 But of course, you might say as a politician, 12 00:01:16,110 --> 00:01:20,460 I would naturally endorse my alma mater that might be true, 13 00:01:20,460 --> 00:01:25,030 but for me, I will always support what is right and good. 14 00:01:25,030 --> 00:01:26,523 Thank you very much. 15 00:01:26,523 --> 00:01:28,773 (applause) 16 00:01:29,860 --> 00:01:33,720 - Okay, and now for our final recipient. 17 00:01:33,720 --> 00:01:36,070 This lady, this amazing lady 18 00:01:36,070 --> 00:01:38,633 has selflessly served our community. 19 00:01:39,690 --> 00:01:43,080 She's one of our leading specialists here in the hospital. 20 00:01:43,080 --> 00:01:45,700 She's worked tirelessly to raise funds 21 00:01:45,700 --> 00:01:48,750 for children's cancer research and treatment 22 00:01:48,750 --> 00:01:49,780 but in addition to that, 23 00:01:49,780 --> 00:01:52,860 she's provided support for teenage pregnancies 24 00:01:52,860 --> 00:01:56,440 and many of our local families have benefited directly 25 00:01:56,440 --> 00:02:00,080 from her work, and let's face it, who can forget 26 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:02,343 how she led us on that London marathon? 27 00:02:03,490 --> 00:02:05,730 Yeah, that was so much fun. 28 00:02:05,730 --> 00:02:08,800 Okay, we must recognize the brilliant work 29 00:02:08,800 --> 00:02:10,460 of this amazing lady. 30 00:02:10,460 --> 00:02:14,146 Please welcome Dr. Zara from St. Luke's Hospital. 31 00:02:14,146 --> 00:02:16,396 (applause) 32 00:02:24,034 --> 00:02:27,534 - Thank you so much, thank you, thank you. 33 00:02:28,417 --> 00:02:29,840 Wow. 34 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:30,903 Wow, it's amazing. 35 00:02:32,540 --> 00:02:37,540 I am so honored to be receiving this award, really. 36 00:02:37,780 --> 00:02:41,550 Because I remember relocating from Los Angeles five years 37 00:02:41,550 --> 00:02:45,690 ago with my mom to this amazing town and my friends 38 00:02:45,690 --> 00:02:48,640 thought I was going to the end of the world and truly 39 00:02:48,640 --> 00:02:52,150 the train line literarily terminates here, 40 00:02:52,150 --> 00:02:54,930 I must say, but I've got say, it's been 41 00:02:54,930 --> 00:02:58,350 one of the best decisions of my life, and I would like 42 00:02:58,350 --> 00:03:00,700 to dedicate this award it to all the amazing 43 00:03:00,700 --> 00:03:04,340 kids we've worked with over the years and to their families 44 00:03:04,340 --> 00:03:06,850 for making our job so much easier. 45 00:03:06,850 --> 00:03:09,180 And to all the medical doctors from St. Luke's, 46 00:03:09,180 --> 00:03:12,010 seated in the audience today, who have also worked 47 00:03:12,010 --> 00:03:12,950 with me on these projects. 48 00:03:12,950 --> 00:03:16,564 I want to say thank you and God bless. 49 00:03:16,564 --> 00:03:17,573 Thank you. 50 00:03:17,573 --> 00:03:19,823 (applause) 51 00:03:21,641 --> 00:03:24,224 - [Pub Goer] More drinks, Alex! 52 00:03:25,830 --> 00:03:27,810 - Okay, here we go again. 53 00:03:27,810 --> 00:03:30,145 - To the smartest doctor. (mumbles drunkenly) 54 00:03:30,145 --> 00:03:32,395 (laughter) 55 00:03:34,324 --> 00:03:39,324 (chatter drowned out by a noisy atmosphere) 56 00:03:41,214 --> 00:03:44,131 (upbeat pub music) 57 00:03:50,820 --> 00:03:54,264 - I'm so sorry, but it's not safe for you to go home. 58 00:03:54,264 --> 00:03:56,210 You need to stay here. 59 00:03:56,210 --> 00:03:58,313 - Good morning Mrs. Jones? 60 00:04:06,259 --> 00:04:08,498 (speaks Welsh) 61 00:04:08,498 --> 00:04:11,350 Okay, so take a deep breath, good? 62 00:04:11,350 --> 00:04:14,240 We just want to keep you under observation, for a few 63 00:04:14,240 --> 00:04:17,400 more days, run some test and if you're good, 64 00:04:17,400 --> 00:04:18,340 we'll send you home. 65 00:04:18,340 --> 00:04:19,460 Is that okay? 66 00:04:19,460 --> 00:04:21,910 All right, so nurse, take her back to the ward. 67 00:04:21,910 --> 00:04:23,940 - Doctor Zara, a woman in labor was just rushed 68 00:04:23,940 --> 00:04:25,010 into the emergency room. 69 00:04:25,010 --> 00:04:25,843 - Oh, really? 70 00:04:25,843 --> 00:04:26,676 How long has she been there? 71 00:04:26,676 --> 00:04:27,913 - Not that long. - Okay. 72 00:04:29,426 --> 00:04:32,759 (upbeat rhythmic music) 73 00:04:57,269 --> 00:05:00,269 (children shouting) 74 00:05:04,954 --> 00:05:07,145 - We are here for your daughter, 75 00:05:07,145 --> 00:05:09,036 What is your... 76 00:05:09,036 --> 00:05:09,910 - I'm listening, I'm listening. 77 00:05:09,910 --> 00:05:11,870 - Yeah, what is the problem that you're 78 00:05:11,870 --> 00:05:13,970 dragging your feet about? 79 00:05:13,970 --> 00:05:16,253 - Alhaji, I am not dragging my feet, 80 00:05:17,360 --> 00:05:22,360 most especially now that Halima is 13 years old. 81 00:05:23,070 --> 00:05:25,940 I know she is big enough to be in her husband's house 82 00:05:26,780 --> 00:05:29,310 but you people have to exercise 83 00:05:29,310 --> 00:05:30,550 a little more patience for me-- 84 00:05:30,550 --> 00:05:33,667 - Ibrahim, have you changed your mind? 85 00:05:33,667 --> 00:05:36,790 Are you not giving me your daughter in marriage again? 86 00:05:36,790 --> 00:05:39,900 - I have not change my mind, Sani, but you know 87 00:05:39,900 --> 00:05:43,025 there are necessary things that Halima needs to go 88 00:05:43,025 --> 00:05:45,580 to her husband's house with, those are the 89 00:05:45,580 --> 00:05:47,527 things I am trying to fix. 90 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:49,983 - Fix the date, 91 00:05:51,295 --> 00:05:53,253 I will take care of all the expenses. 92 00:05:53,253 --> 00:05:54,177 - [Hadiza] Halima. 93 00:05:54,177 --> 00:05:55,344 - [Halima] Ma! 94 00:05:56,350 --> 00:05:58,492 - What did Mama Adamu say? 95 00:05:58,492 --> 00:05:59,600 - She said... 96 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:02,257 - Mr. Bird now came to the ground and say, "Mrs. Tortoise, 97 00:06:02,257 --> 00:06:04,257 "your husband say you put all the hard things 98 00:06:04,257 --> 00:06:07,080 "in the house, that he's going to fall on them, oh!" 99 00:06:07,080 --> 00:06:10,310 So she did, the tortoise now come to the ground. 100 00:06:12,218 --> 00:06:16,029 That is how the tortoise broke his back. 101 00:06:16,029 --> 00:06:17,222 (laughs) 102 00:06:17,222 --> 00:06:20,139 (mysterious music) 103 00:06:26,680 --> 00:06:29,660 - Halima, what are you doing here all alone? 104 00:06:29,660 --> 00:06:31,990 Why are you not with your brother and sister? 105 00:06:31,990 --> 00:06:33,597 You should come in and rest. 106 00:06:33,597 --> 00:06:36,409 You know next week is your big day. 107 00:06:36,409 --> 00:06:39,880 - Ma, I don't want to marry now. 108 00:06:39,880 --> 00:06:44,000 - Halima, you are too young to understand these things. 109 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:46,160 You are young and this is the right time. 110 00:06:46,160 --> 00:06:49,290 When you are old and worn out, who will marry you? 111 00:06:49,290 --> 00:06:51,700 And Sani has been so generous. 112 00:06:51,700 --> 00:06:55,730 See all the gifts he showers on the us every now and then? 113 00:06:55,730 --> 00:06:57,530 It seems he's the right one for you. 114 00:06:58,580 --> 00:06:59,577 - Why me? 115 00:06:59,577 --> 00:07:02,204 I don't want go with him. 116 00:07:02,204 --> 00:07:05,600 - Halima, your father wants the best for you. 117 00:07:05,600 --> 00:07:08,660 Since you're the eldest, he wants you to get married first, 118 00:07:08,660 --> 00:07:10,453 before your younger one, Tani. 119 00:07:11,290 --> 00:07:13,600 She has been betrothed over a year now. 120 00:07:13,600 --> 00:07:18,250 She is waiting for you to get married so hers can come next. 121 00:07:18,250 --> 00:07:20,003 Can't you see how excited she is? 122 00:07:21,360 --> 00:07:23,023 - Mother, please. 123 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:28,600 - Halima, you are very young and healthy 124 00:07:28,600 --> 00:07:31,370 and very soon you will become a mother. 125 00:07:31,370 --> 00:07:35,337 See my Halima, getting married to a very rich man! 126 00:07:36,770 --> 00:07:40,003 Your friends and their mother will be so jealous of you! 127 00:07:42,890 --> 00:07:44,670 - It's been three months since our last session. 128 00:07:44,670 --> 00:07:46,070 - Is it already three months? 129 00:07:46,070 --> 00:07:47,440 - Yes, where have you been? 130 00:07:48,480 --> 00:07:50,530 - I had to take care of my mom. 131 00:07:50,530 --> 00:07:52,063 - What happened to your mother? 132 00:07:52,990 --> 00:07:56,150 - She's been suffering from exhaustion from her last trip 133 00:07:56,150 --> 00:07:57,810 and now I can't believe she's planning 134 00:07:57,810 --> 00:07:59,300 another trip to Africa. 135 00:07:59,300 --> 00:08:00,760 - You know that's what keeps her going? 136 00:08:00,760 --> 00:08:03,700 - Yes, but she's been doing it for years. 137 00:08:03,700 --> 00:08:06,170 Traveling every year for her medical missions. 138 00:08:06,170 --> 00:08:07,870 - One of those missions saved you. 139 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:12,553 - I know. 140 00:08:14,100 --> 00:08:16,693 Maybe I just miss when it was just the two of us. 141 00:08:17,760 --> 00:08:20,400 - You feel she's not proud of you anymore? 142 00:08:20,400 --> 00:08:21,233 - No, 143 00:08:22,440 --> 00:08:23,273 she is. 144 00:08:24,140 --> 00:08:25,724 - Do you think you might go with her 145 00:08:25,724 --> 00:08:27,124 on one of her trips someday? 146 00:08:29,618 --> 00:08:30,802 - I don't know. 147 00:08:30,802 --> 00:08:31,635 - Why don't you go? 148 00:08:31,635 --> 00:08:34,133 - Because told you before my life is here. 149 00:08:36,760 --> 00:08:38,570 - When do we break this wall? 150 00:08:38,570 --> 00:08:39,403 - What wall? 151 00:08:39,403 --> 00:08:41,340 - Your fears? - I don't have any fears. 152 00:08:42,637 --> 00:08:45,860 - We have been going around in circles each session. 153 00:08:45,860 --> 00:08:47,003 When do you let me in? 154 00:08:52,570 --> 00:08:55,550 - Maybe I need to trust completely. 155 00:08:55,550 --> 00:08:56,910 - You don't trust me? 156 00:08:56,910 --> 00:08:57,743 - I, it-- 157 00:08:57,743 --> 00:08:58,875 (phone buzzes) 158 00:08:58,875 --> 00:08:59,708 I'm sorry. 159 00:09:01,860 --> 00:09:02,975 Hospital. 160 00:09:02,975 --> 00:09:04,393 I have to leave now. 161 00:09:05,290 --> 00:09:07,130 - Your next appointment is on Thursday. 162 00:09:07,130 --> 00:09:08,487 - Okay, thank you. 163 00:09:11,970 --> 00:09:14,100 - Thousands of women are dying in Africa due to 164 00:09:14,100 --> 00:09:16,720 the lack of medical care and this is a serious 165 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:18,760 gynecological problem. 166 00:09:18,760 --> 00:09:21,140 It was reported that more than two million women 167 00:09:21,140 --> 00:09:23,970 in the world suffer from a condition called fistula 168 00:09:25,020 --> 00:09:27,860 and one would have thought in this 21st century, 169 00:09:27,860 --> 00:09:30,333 that cases of fistula should not exist. 170 00:09:33,300 --> 00:09:34,400 - You asked to see me? 171 00:09:34,400 --> 00:09:35,996 - Oh yeah, have a seat. 172 00:09:35,996 --> 00:09:38,244 I have an interesting proposition for you. 173 00:09:38,244 --> 00:09:39,807 - It's not about going back to Sierra Leone, is it? 174 00:09:39,807 --> 00:09:41,550 - Oh, come on, I thought you liked it. 175 00:09:41,550 --> 00:09:44,980 - I do, I do, but I got back home two weeks ago 176 00:09:44,980 --> 00:09:48,090 and Jamie was walking, you know little toddler steps, 177 00:09:48,090 --> 00:09:48,923 and I missed it. 178 00:09:48,923 --> 00:09:50,400 I need a break. 179 00:09:50,400 --> 00:09:51,350 - How old is Jamie? 180 00:09:51,350 --> 00:09:52,713 - He's 14 months. 181 00:09:54,400 --> 00:09:55,600 Why don't you ask Zara? 182 00:09:55,600 --> 00:09:58,320 Sound like the Pharmco guys gave a good presentation. 183 00:09:58,320 --> 00:10:00,800 - Oh boy, did they ever, and we can't possibly miss out 184 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:02,790 on the funds they can make available to us. 185 00:10:02,790 --> 00:10:04,120 - You should really ask Zara. 186 00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:06,340 She does so much charity work here. 187 00:10:06,340 --> 00:10:08,480 It's almost as if she's trying to make up for something. 188 00:10:08,480 --> 00:10:09,770 - Yeah. 189 00:10:09,770 --> 00:10:11,240 It's funny, you know, she gives her hundred percent, 190 00:10:11,240 --> 00:10:14,604 but when you bring up Africa, she shies away from it. 191 00:10:14,604 --> 00:10:16,230 I don't know, beats me. 192 00:10:16,230 --> 00:10:18,470 - Well, the fact that I'm from there doesn't necessarily 193 00:10:18,470 --> 00:10:20,570 mean that I know it more than anyone here. 194 00:10:21,690 --> 00:10:23,247 - Okay Zara, 195 00:10:23,247 --> 00:10:25,690 Pharmco Pharmaceutical is investing over sixty percent 196 00:10:25,690 --> 00:10:27,790 in our community hospital fund. 197 00:10:27,790 --> 00:10:30,453 It's only fair that we reciprocate. 198 00:10:31,310 --> 00:10:32,795 Don't you want to be a part of the team? 199 00:10:32,795 --> 00:10:33,820 - I'm already part of the team! 200 00:10:33,820 --> 00:10:35,910 I don't need to go to Africa with a company whose 201 00:10:35,910 --> 00:10:38,680 only interest is in making profit all in the name of 202 00:10:38,680 --> 00:10:41,380 charity, and I don't need to prove anything to anyone. 203 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:46,472 - I want you to think about this. 204 00:10:46,472 --> 00:10:48,972 (light music) 205 00:10:51,050 --> 00:10:52,400 - How was your meeting with Dr. Brown? 206 00:10:52,400 --> 00:10:54,930 - He wants me to go to Africa with Pharmco Pharmaceutical. 207 00:10:54,930 --> 00:10:56,140 Can you imagine that? 208 00:10:57,140 --> 00:10:58,340 - That sounds great! 209 00:10:58,340 --> 00:11:00,620 - Great? - Yeah. 210 00:11:00,620 --> 00:11:01,970 Maybe we could go together. 211 00:11:02,960 --> 00:11:04,220 - I don't even want to talk about that. 212 00:11:04,220 --> 00:11:05,483 I'm not going there. 213 00:11:06,940 --> 00:11:08,400 - Why? 214 00:11:08,400 --> 00:11:09,233 What's wrong with that? 215 00:11:09,233 --> 00:11:11,140 - Come on Alex, Dr. Brown just wants to look good 216 00:11:11,140 --> 00:11:12,530 in front of the board. 217 00:11:12,530 --> 00:11:14,350 That's Dr. Brown. 218 00:11:14,350 --> 00:11:15,183 You know? 219 00:11:17,640 --> 00:11:19,230 - I wonder why he hasn't ask me? 220 00:11:19,230 --> 00:11:21,900 - Maybe you should got ask him also. 221 00:11:21,900 --> 00:11:23,517 I told him to, you know... 222 00:11:26,670 --> 00:11:28,330 - [Alex] Just sit tight for a couple of minutes. 223 00:11:28,330 --> 00:11:29,840 It's nearly ready. 224 00:11:29,840 --> 00:11:32,160 - Yeah, I told him to ask doctor... 225 00:11:35,867 --> 00:11:37,420 - [Alex] All right, it'll be just two more minutes, 226 00:11:37,420 --> 00:11:39,085 nearly there. 227 00:11:39,085 --> 00:11:44,085 - Um... 228 00:11:44,870 --> 00:11:46,820 Uh, Mom? 229 00:11:46,820 --> 00:11:48,000 Yeah? 230 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:50,093 Um, yes, 231 00:11:51,014 --> 00:11:51,973 are you okay? 232 00:11:53,180 --> 00:11:55,090 Yes, you want me to come? 233 00:11:55,090 --> 00:11:56,530 Okay, I'll be there now. 234 00:11:56,530 --> 00:11:59,590 Alex, my mom, I need to go to my mom now. 235 00:11:59,590 --> 00:12:00,571 I need to leave. 236 00:12:00,571 --> 00:12:02,220 - What? 237 00:12:02,220 --> 00:12:03,053 Zara? 238 00:12:15,660 --> 00:12:16,870 - Hi darling. 239 00:12:16,870 --> 00:12:18,426 - He's gotten a ring 240 00:12:18,426 --> 00:12:21,420 - Who? - Alex! 241 00:12:21,420 --> 00:12:22,253 - Oh, show me! 242 00:12:23,280 --> 00:12:27,090 - Well, I freaked out and I left. 243 00:12:27,090 --> 00:12:28,240 - So he didn't ask you? 244 00:12:28,240 --> 00:12:30,060 - Well he was about to. 245 00:12:30,060 --> 00:12:33,590 The whole candle lit dinner, the whole atmosphere. 246 00:12:33,590 --> 00:12:35,070 I just freaked out. 247 00:12:35,070 --> 00:12:36,730 I'm not ready. 248 00:12:36,730 --> 00:12:37,563 - Come here. 249 00:12:39,480 --> 00:12:41,810 It's natural to be afraid. 250 00:12:41,810 --> 00:12:43,770 But Alex is a good man. 251 00:12:43,770 --> 00:12:44,603 - I know. 252 00:12:46,030 --> 00:12:49,070 Maybe I'm not just good enough. 253 00:12:49,070 --> 00:12:50,450 - Look, I've always told you, 254 00:12:50,450 --> 00:12:52,510 don't judge yourself so harshly. 255 00:12:52,510 --> 00:12:54,753 You are beautiful, successful, 256 00:12:54,753 --> 00:12:57,940 you're one of the best doctors in the town. 257 00:12:57,940 --> 00:13:01,403 Why on earth would you think you're not good enough? 258 00:13:01,403 --> 00:13:02,236 - I don't know. 259 00:13:02,236 --> 00:13:04,403 Maybe I've gotten nervous. 260 00:13:06,547 --> 00:13:08,500 Are you still planning your trip to Africa? 261 00:13:08,500 --> 00:13:09,649 - Yes, I am. 262 00:13:09,649 --> 00:13:10,513 Are you going to come with me this time? 263 00:13:10,513 --> 00:13:12,060 It will be fun. 264 00:13:12,060 --> 00:13:14,620 - Mom, I've told you, I'm needed here. 265 00:13:14,620 --> 00:13:15,710 - Wow, great! 266 00:13:15,710 --> 00:13:17,687 She's almost due for delivery. 267 00:13:17,687 --> 00:13:18,610 - We are really looking forward to it. 268 00:13:18,610 --> 00:13:19,593 We're so excited. 269 00:13:20,910 --> 00:13:25,510 - Um, however, from what I'm seeing here, 270 00:13:25,510 --> 00:13:28,340 her pelvic is too narrow for a natural birth, 271 00:13:28,340 --> 00:13:31,948 so she might need to deliver through Caesarean section. 272 00:13:31,948 --> 00:13:34,951 - No, no, no, no, no, we expected natural birth. 273 00:13:34,951 --> 00:13:36,982 - I know, we have to consider the risk. 274 00:13:36,982 --> 00:13:38,156 I mean, Caesarean section is not-- 275 00:13:38,156 --> 00:13:39,280 - No, no, no, we have read lots 276 00:13:39,280 --> 00:13:40,692 of self help books on natural birth 277 00:13:40,692 --> 00:13:42,642 and we are convinced it's right for us. 278 00:13:45,268 --> 00:13:46,943 - Are you her husband? 279 00:13:48,950 --> 00:13:50,003 - She is my fiancee. 280 00:13:55,570 --> 00:13:56,900 - What do you think? 281 00:13:56,900 --> 00:13:57,960 I mean, it's your body. 282 00:13:57,960 --> 00:13:59,630 I'm here to lay down all the medical facts 283 00:13:59,630 --> 00:14:01,453 for you to help you make a decision. 284 00:14:03,100 --> 00:14:07,020 - Em, well, I would prefer a natural birth. 285 00:14:07,020 --> 00:14:10,400 - I know, we are not in anyway discouraging natural birth. 286 00:14:10,400 --> 00:14:13,170 I mean it's the best way, but if we sense 287 00:14:13,170 --> 00:14:16,940 any kind of possible complications, you know, 288 00:14:16,940 --> 00:14:20,317 we take precaution so that mother and child are not at risk. 289 00:14:20,317 --> 00:14:22,250 - Now don't try to scare us. 290 00:14:22,250 --> 00:14:23,750 We want natural birth, doctor, 291 00:14:24,630 --> 00:14:26,500 and that's what we've decided on. 292 00:14:27,470 --> 00:14:30,610 - I couldn't believe those two, acting as if I suggested 293 00:14:30,610 --> 00:14:32,093 the worst option to them. 294 00:14:33,310 --> 00:14:34,880 - We advise and the patients decides. 295 00:14:34,880 --> 00:14:36,720 - Well they're even lucky to have a choice. 296 00:14:36,720 --> 00:14:38,000 Some people don't. 297 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:39,770 I didn't have a choice. 298 00:14:39,770 --> 00:14:41,348 It was very painful. 299 00:14:41,348 --> 00:14:44,240 (screaming) 300 00:14:44,240 --> 00:14:45,190 - What was painful? 301 00:14:52,010 --> 00:14:54,973 - Leaving her or the thought of not knowing. 302 00:14:56,590 --> 00:14:57,903 - Do you have any regrets? 303 00:14:59,360 --> 00:15:03,670 - I can't let go of the pain, of the shame. 304 00:15:03,670 --> 00:15:06,420 - Why do you come here every Thursday? 305 00:15:06,420 --> 00:15:07,273 - I don't know. 306 00:15:08,580 --> 00:15:10,930 I guess I'm supposed to be talking to a shrink. 307 00:15:14,100 --> 00:15:17,483 - Are you willing to look inside yourself and heal? 308 00:15:39,090 --> 00:15:40,413 - Welcome, yes. 309 00:15:48,670 --> 00:15:49,503 - I need more. 310 00:15:51,011 --> 00:15:53,094 (laughs) 311 00:15:54,250 --> 00:15:56,900 - How is my beautiful daughter doing? 312 00:15:56,900 --> 00:15:58,310 - We are almost done. 313 00:15:58,310 --> 00:16:00,970 My magic fingers are giving her the best make-over 314 00:16:00,970 --> 00:16:02,790 this town has ever experienced. 315 00:16:02,790 --> 00:16:04,700 Look at her, like a princess! 316 00:16:04,700 --> 00:16:07,586 Even the old Sani will not recognize her. 317 00:16:07,586 --> 00:16:10,540 - Ah, Dillaliya, Sani is a nice one, and I know he's going 318 00:16:10,540 --> 00:16:12,680 to take good care of my Halima. 319 00:16:12,680 --> 00:16:16,250 - Oh, I'm sure, his other wives seem to be doing okay. 320 00:16:16,250 --> 00:16:18,260 Though I heard his mother is a handful, 321 00:16:18,260 --> 00:16:19,910 giving his wives so much trouble. 322 00:16:19,910 --> 00:16:23,630 - Dillaliya, his mother is a good woman, and I know 323 00:16:23,630 --> 00:16:25,313 she's going to be fine with them. 324 00:16:27,190 --> 00:16:29,620 - Oh please, ignore the way I'm talking. 325 00:16:29,620 --> 00:16:32,980 It's just everyone seems to think I have a big mouth, 326 00:16:32,980 --> 00:16:35,070 but Halima is so beautiful-- 327 00:16:35,070 --> 00:16:39,170 - I think your job is done, right, Dillaliya? 328 00:16:39,170 --> 00:16:40,683 - Yes, yes. 329 00:16:42,240 --> 00:16:45,290 - My daughter, all your friends are going to be jealous 330 00:16:45,290 --> 00:16:48,350 of you because you're marrying a rich husband. 331 00:16:48,350 --> 00:16:50,710 And even those who cannot find husbands 332 00:16:50,710 --> 00:16:52,161 for their own daughters. 333 00:16:52,161 --> 00:16:53,664 Cheer up, my dear. 334 00:16:53,664 --> 00:16:55,047 Cheer up. 335 00:16:55,047 --> 00:16:55,903 (laughs) 336 00:16:55,903 --> 00:17:00,841 - [Dillaliya] Hadiza! (laughs) 337 00:17:00,841 --> 00:17:04,091 (singing and clapping) 338 00:17:26,559 --> 00:17:30,038 (speaking in a foreign language) 339 00:17:30,038 --> 00:17:32,038 - Now here is the dowry. 340 00:17:39,474 --> 00:17:41,557 (counts) 341 00:17:49,124 --> 00:17:50,541 - It is complete, 342 00:17:52,873 --> 00:17:55,071 may God bless this marriage. 343 00:17:55,071 --> 00:17:59,154 (excited chattering and singing) 344 00:18:48,197 --> 00:18:50,691 - Ah, doctor, I can't take it anymore! 345 00:18:50,691 --> 00:18:52,773 (doctors frantically giving orders) 346 00:18:52,773 --> 00:18:55,680 - I don't want you to push unless I tell you to. 347 00:18:55,680 --> 00:18:57,780 I want you to save all your energy, okay? 348 00:18:57,780 --> 00:18:58,613 - Shut up! 349 00:19:00,800 --> 00:19:02,648 Doctor, I can't take it anymore. 350 00:19:02,648 --> 00:19:03,860 - I'm here, baby. 351 00:19:03,860 --> 00:19:05,742 - Don't call me baby! 352 00:19:05,742 --> 00:19:07,713 Take him out, take him out, take him out! 353 00:19:07,713 --> 00:19:10,546 - Please, I need you to leave now. 354 00:19:11,595 --> 00:19:13,620 Let's move her now to the theater, please. 355 00:19:13,620 --> 00:19:15,121 - Cut me open, I don't care. 356 00:19:15,121 --> 00:19:18,788 Get it out of me! (screams) 357 00:19:25,770 --> 00:19:27,922 Thank you doctor, I'm really grateful. 358 00:19:27,922 --> 00:19:29,440 - No problem. 359 00:19:29,440 --> 00:19:31,343 - And uh, I'm so sorry, doctor. 360 00:19:33,160 --> 00:19:34,620 I'm glad you did the operation. 361 00:19:34,620 --> 00:19:36,340 - It's all right, there's no problem. 362 00:19:36,340 --> 00:19:39,457 The most important thing is that mother and child are safe. 363 00:19:39,457 --> 00:19:40,431 How're you feeling? 364 00:19:40,431 --> 00:19:43,500 - A bit tired, but I'm okay. 365 00:19:43,500 --> 00:19:44,750 - Oh, Mom. 366 00:19:44,750 --> 00:19:46,840 - Oh, hi darling. - Hi. 367 00:19:46,840 --> 00:19:48,560 - I didn't want to leave without seeing you. 368 00:19:48,560 --> 00:19:51,060 - I didn't know you were coming in today. 369 00:19:51,060 --> 00:19:52,740 - My trip has been moved forward, 370 00:19:52,740 --> 00:19:55,163 so I needed to do my final check ups. 371 00:19:56,120 --> 00:19:57,103 - Oh, okay. 372 00:19:58,297 --> 00:19:59,540 - Are you okay, darling? 373 00:19:59,540 --> 00:20:00,570 - I'm fine. 374 00:20:00,570 --> 00:20:02,050 When are you leaving? 375 00:20:02,050 --> 00:20:03,811 - In a week. - Okay, I-- 376 00:20:03,811 --> 00:20:05,020 (nurse knocks on the door) 377 00:20:05,020 --> 00:20:05,853 - [Nurse] The test results. 378 00:20:05,853 --> 00:20:06,686 - Oh, thanks. 379 00:20:07,613 --> 00:20:09,780 Here's your results, Mama. 380 00:20:11,730 --> 00:20:15,140 Okay, mom, you are good to go. 381 00:20:15,140 --> 00:20:16,990 Clean and healthy. 382 00:20:16,990 --> 00:20:18,650 - I need to be on my way. 383 00:20:18,650 --> 00:20:21,423 - I was exactly like you when I married my first husband. 384 00:20:21,423 --> 00:20:23,370 That was before he died. 385 00:20:23,370 --> 00:20:26,260 Poor man, he had a fragile heart! 386 00:20:26,260 --> 00:20:29,560 But after then, I married my second husband, 387 00:20:29,560 --> 00:20:32,547 which is Sani's father, Sani, your husband, eh? 388 00:20:33,760 --> 00:20:35,810 Sani's father loved me. 389 00:20:35,810 --> 00:20:39,320 He could not get his hands off me, but after a while 390 00:20:39,320 --> 00:20:43,770 he too died, he too had a fragile heart. (laughs) 391 00:20:43,770 --> 00:20:45,110 But don't worry. 392 00:20:45,110 --> 00:20:46,140 You see, I like you. 393 00:20:46,140 --> 00:20:48,070 You are very strong. 394 00:20:48,070 --> 00:20:51,117 Look at your bones, you'll give me a lot of grand children. 395 00:20:51,117 --> 00:20:51,991 Hm? 396 00:20:51,991 --> 00:20:53,869 - You stubborn boy. 397 00:20:53,869 --> 00:20:55,424 What is wrong with you, what is wrong with you? 398 00:20:55,424 --> 00:20:56,257 What is wrong with you? 399 00:20:56,257 --> 00:20:58,170 - Hey, woman, stop beating him! 400 00:20:58,170 --> 00:21:00,300 - Halimagida, this boy is very stubborn! 401 00:21:00,300 --> 00:21:01,240 - Is okay, is okay. 402 00:21:01,240 --> 00:21:03,503 Go, go, go to your brothers. 403 00:21:03,503 --> 00:21:05,440 Hey, hey, afternoon. 404 00:21:05,440 --> 00:21:06,399 Where's my mother? 405 00:21:06,399 --> 00:21:07,463 - She's over there. 406 00:21:07,463 --> 00:21:10,290 - What about my new wife, Halima? 407 00:21:10,290 --> 00:21:11,123 Where is she? 408 00:21:11,123 --> 00:21:13,007 - She's equally there, she's with Hajia. 409 00:21:13,007 --> 00:21:14,143 - Ah! Halima! 410 00:21:15,260 --> 00:21:16,213 Halima! 411 00:21:17,600 --> 00:21:19,133 Ah, good afternoon, Ma! 412 00:21:21,426 --> 00:21:22,259 Halima! 413 00:21:22,259 --> 00:21:24,500 - I was just having a little discussion with your new wife. 414 00:21:24,500 --> 00:21:26,886 What a beautiful addition she is. 415 00:21:26,886 --> 00:21:28,969 (laughs) 416 00:21:30,230 --> 00:21:32,333 - Halima, my wife, how are you? 417 00:21:36,200 --> 00:21:38,650 Let's go in, let's go in, my wife. 418 00:21:38,650 --> 00:21:39,860 Halima, my wife. 419 00:21:46,890 --> 00:21:51,890 My pretty one, this is for you, as my new wife. 420 00:21:52,870 --> 00:21:57,637 I want you to always look nice and beautiful for me, hm? 421 00:22:15,440 --> 00:22:16,563 You are welcome. 422 00:22:19,151 --> 00:22:21,818 (ominous music) 423 00:22:51,040 --> 00:22:53,420 - Is there something you need to talk to me about? 424 00:22:53,420 --> 00:22:54,963 - No, why? 425 00:22:56,120 --> 00:22:56,970 - Just wondering. 426 00:22:59,720 --> 00:23:01,563 - I'm just remembering my dad. 427 00:23:03,110 --> 00:23:04,593 And I miss him so much. 428 00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:08,907 - You know, I'm here for you. 429 00:23:08,907 --> 00:23:13,907 - Yeah, I know. 430 00:23:17,245 --> 00:23:18,078 - Halima. 431 00:23:19,585 --> 00:23:23,335 (speaks a foreign language) 432 00:23:27,044 --> 00:23:28,211 My pretty one. 433 00:23:29,830 --> 00:23:31,980 You know you are mine now, eh? 434 00:23:31,980 --> 00:23:33,470 Don't do that. 435 00:23:33,470 --> 00:23:35,284 Come close to your husband. 436 00:23:35,284 --> 00:23:36,735 Come! - Don't hurt me. 437 00:23:36,735 --> 00:23:38,091 - Hey, shh! 438 00:23:38,091 --> 00:23:39,770 I'm not going to hurt you. 439 00:23:39,770 --> 00:23:41,613 Come, come, come to me! 440 00:23:42,480 --> 00:23:44,294 Hey, hey, hey-- 441 00:23:44,294 --> 00:23:45,353 (Halima screams) 442 00:23:45,353 --> 00:23:46,340 Listen, listen to me! 443 00:23:46,340 --> 00:23:47,173 Listen! 444 00:23:47,173 --> 00:23:48,870 Keep quiet, shut up! 445 00:23:48,870 --> 00:23:52,263 I paid a lot of money to have you as my wife! 446 00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:55,847 I waited for you all these years, 447 00:23:55,847 --> 00:23:58,700 but still you want to struggle with me. 448 00:24:02,716 --> 00:24:05,716 (screaming muffles) 449 00:24:07,833 --> 00:24:09,916 Stop it, stop it, I said! 450 00:24:15,146 --> 00:24:17,813 (Halima crying) 451 00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:29,473 Did your mother not prepare you for the role of a wife? 452 00:24:31,994 --> 00:24:34,773 Do not be stubborn with me, you hear me? 453 00:24:34,773 --> 00:24:38,953 When I come here next time, I expect complete submission! 454 00:24:55,010 --> 00:24:55,910 - [Fatima] Halima! 455 00:24:56,752 --> 00:24:58,422 - I think this one is okay. 456 00:24:58,422 --> 00:24:59,255 - Eh. 457 00:25:05,740 --> 00:25:06,573 - Halima. 458 00:25:07,950 --> 00:25:09,100 What is wrong with you? 459 00:25:10,570 --> 00:25:11,403 Why haven't you bothered to join 460 00:25:11,403 --> 00:25:13,433 the rest of us to do some cleaning? 461 00:25:15,220 --> 00:25:16,720 Why are you locked up in here? 462 00:25:18,138 --> 00:25:20,138 (gasps) 463 00:25:23,770 --> 00:25:25,070 Come, let me clean you up. 464 00:25:26,010 --> 00:25:28,810 - He beats me, all my body is paining me. 465 00:25:28,810 --> 00:25:30,713 I don't want to see him again. 466 00:25:31,890 --> 00:25:33,733 - Sorry, he didn't beat you. 467 00:25:34,580 --> 00:25:36,210 I'm sure that's his own way to show you 468 00:25:36,210 --> 00:25:37,550 how much he loves you. 469 00:25:37,550 --> 00:25:40,087 - I don't want to see him again. 470 00:25:40,087 --> 00:25:42,153 I don't want to see him again. 471 00:25:42,153 --> 00:25:43,830 - It's okay, Halima. 472 00:25:43,830 --> 00:25:46,987 You are young, but you will understand soon enough. 473 00:25:49,629 --> 00:25:51,991 - Stop, uncle, please. 474 00:25:51,991 --> 00:25:54,158 (screams) 475 00:25:54,998 --> 00:25:55,831 No, no! 476 00:25:57,786 --> 00:25:59,703 Uncle stop, uncle stop. 477 00:26:06,079 --> 00:26:08,662 (somber music) 478 00:26:16,265 --> 00:26:17,932 - Thank you so much. 479 00:26:28,540 --> 00:26:30,442 - That's him, right? 480 00:26:30,442 --> 00:26:31,810 - Alex! 481 00:26:31,810 --> 00:26:33,000 What are you doing here? 482 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:34,650 - You're cheating on me with him? 483 00:26:35,980 --> 00:26:38,257 - Have you been following me and what are you talking about? 484 00:26:38,257 --> 00:26:40,010 - I'm talking about you sneaking out every Thursday 485 00:26:40,010 --> 00:26:41,390 to see another man. 486 00:26:41,390 --> 00:26:42,223 I trusted you, Zara. 487 00:26:42,223 --> 00:26:44,410 - No, I trusted you not to invade my privacy. 488 00:26:44,410 --> 00:26:45,440 - Your privacy? 489 00:26:45,440 --> 00:26:47,460 Are we private now? 490 00:26:47,460 --> 00:26:48,840 - Listen Alex, I'm not going 491 00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:51,030 to take this crap from you or any man. 492 00:26:51,030 --> 00:26:52,550 I need to sort myself out. 493 00:26:52,550 --> 00:26:55,330 - Oh, so that's what you are doing, sorting yourself out? 494 00:26:55,330 --> 00:26:56,520 - You're damn right, that's what I'm doing, 495 00:26:56,520 --> 00:26:57,530 sorting myself out. 496 00:26:57,530 --> 00:26:58,363 What is this? 497 00:26:58,363 --> 00:26:59,270 You sneaking up on me? 498 00:26:59,270 --> 00:27:00,540 I mean, that is so creepy. 499 00:27:00,540 --> 00:27:01,650 I'm done 500 00:27:01,650 --> 00:27:03,070 - Zara come back here. 501 00:27:03,070 --> 00:27:04,413 Zara, I'm talking to you! 502 00:27:14,930 --> 00:27:16,580 - Where are you coming from? 503 00:27:16,580 --> 00:27:18,898 Is everything all right? 504 00:27:18,898 --> 00:27:19,985 - He beats me. 505 00:27:19,985 --> 00:27:23,058 My whole body is paining me. 506 00:27:23,058 --> 00:27:23,891 - Halima! 507 00:27:25,471 --> 00:27:26,470 He is your husband. 508 00:27:26,470 --> 00:27:27,420 He can do anything. 509 00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:37,660 - Halima, have you come to visit us? 510 00:27:37,660 --> 00:27:38,590 How is... 511 00:27:40,229 --> 00:27:41,396 You're crying? 512 00:27:42,290 --> 00:27:43,700 What happened? 513 00:27:43,700 --> 00:27:45,043 - He beats me. 514 00:27:45,910 --> 00:27:46,963 - He beats you? 515 00:27:49,250 --> 00:27:50,250 How can he beat you? 516 00:27:51,190 --> 00:27:52,933 He's your husband, Halima. 517 00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:57,164 By the way, what did you do to provoke him? 518 00:27:57,164 --> 00:27:57,997 - Nothing. 519 00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:04,763 - Now go back to your husband's house and learn to love him. 520 00:28:05,619 --> 00:28:06,587 - At this hour? 521 00:28:06,587 --> 00:28:08,420 It's late. - It's late? 522 00:28:11,670 --> 00:28:14,570 Go back to your husband house and make his home your home. 523 00:28:15,940 --> 00:28:16,773 - Please, no. 524 00:28:19,121 --> 00:28:21,012 Halima, don't worry. 525 00:28:21,012 --> 00:28:23,752 I will take you home tomorrow, yeah? 526 00:28:23,752 --> 00:28:28,752 Let's go. 527 00:28:36,270 --> 00:28:38,203 My in-law, I have brought her. 528 00:28:40,620 --> 00:28:42,150 - She ran away? 529 00:28:42,150 --> 00:28:44,940 - Um, yes... 530 00:28:44,940 --> 00:28:46,220 No, she's-- 531 00:28:46,220 --> 00:28:47,640 - I understand, I understand. 532 00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:49,757 No problem at all, no problem. 533 00:28:55,363 --> 00:28:57,530 Greet your husband for me. 534 00:29:01,241 --> 00:29:03,957 Where did you go to? 535 00:29:03,957 --> 00:29:06,957 I'm asking you, where did you go to? 536 00:29:26,072 --> 00:29:28,610 - Zara's not speaking to me. 537 00:29:28,610 --> 00:29:30,141 - Why? 538 00:29:30,141 --> 00:29:31,391 - I don't know. 539 00:29:34,070 --> 00:29:36,660 - Zara goes in and out of her moods. 540 00:29:36,660 --> 00:29:37,903 She'll come around. 541 00:29:38,750 --> 00:29:39,583 - I hope so. 542 00:29:44,456 --> 00:29:46,920 (sighs) 543 00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:48,000 She's... 544 00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:50,973 She's seeing a shrink. 545 00:29:53,260 --> 00:29:55,490 - It's nothing unusual these days. 546 00:29:55,490 --> 00:29:57,993 - No, I mean she's dating one. 547 00:29:59,960 --> 00:30:00,853 - Are you sure? 548 00:30:02,805 --> 00:30:05,273 - No, I don't know. 549 00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:07,363 I'm confused. 550 00:30:08,630 --> 00:30:10,890 - Well, you've been together a long time, 551 00:30:10,890 --> 00:30:13,440 and I know she loves you. 552 00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:15,990 I don't think Zara would do such a thing like that. 553 00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:19,200 - I'm afraid she might have broken up with me. 554 00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:21,490 - Why do you think that? 555 00:30:21,490 --> 00:30:22,550 - We had an argument. 556 00:30:22,550 --> 00:30:25,210 I've never seen her so angry. 557 00:30:25,210 --> 00:30:27,253 - Oh, Alex. 558 00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:29,993 Don't worry, I'll talk to her. 559 00:30:50,578 --> 00:30:53,495 (necklaces jingle) 560 00:31:09,055 --> 00:31:11,555 (light music) 561 00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:26,633 - Alex is gone. 562 00:31:26,633 --> 00:31:27,517 You two really-- 563 00:31:33,510 --> 00:31:34,763 - Why didn't you tell me? 564 00:31:36,340 --> 00:31:38,303 - Because there was nothing definite. 565 00:31:40,330 --> 00:31:44,313 I tried to, but you were too scared to hear me out. 566 00:31:46,669 --> 00:31:48,369 - Are you sure she's really alive? 567 00:31:52,055 --> 00:31:53,940 - Like you, I had my doubts, 568 00:31:55,220 --> 00:31:57,213 but what I found is very hopeful. 569 00:31:58,290 --> 00:32:02,563 The nurse confessed, but I don't know anything yet. 570 00:32:03,460 --> 00:32:07,273 On my last trip I was able to get the address of Madam Kojo, 571 00:32:10,470 --> 00:32:13,373 and I'm hoping to get more information on this trip. 572 00:32:14,537 --> 00:32:16,373 - Oh, god Mom, what do I do? 573 00:32:19,515 --> 00:32:23,270 - All these years I have watched you grow 574 00:32:23,270 --> 00:32:28,193 into a wonderful, successful doctor and daughter. 575 00:32:29,370 --> 00:32:31,603 And all of these years, 576 00:32:31,603 --> 00:32:34,480 I have watched you suffering silently. 577 00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:35,710 So I think 578 00:32:37,340 --> 00:32:39,940 maybe if you could find out 579 00:32:39,940 --> 00:32:41,523 if your child is alive or dead, 580 00:32:43,292 --> 00:32:46,057 then you can put an end to your suffering. 581 00:32:46,057 --> 00:32:48,364 - Mom, I don't want to go back there, 582 00:32:48,364 --> 00:32:51,499 I don't want to go back there. 583 00:32:51,499 --> 00:32:52,376 - Oh, I know. 584 00:32:52,376 --> 00:32:53,209 - I just can't. 585 00:32:53,209 --> 00:32:55,017 - That's why I'm doing the job for you. 586 00:32:57,021 --> 00:33:01,013 He's one of the most important men in your country now. 587 00:33:03,105 --> 00:33:04,619 Listen you have to go. 588 00:33:04,619 --> 00:33:06,702 - I can't, I can't do this, Mom, I just can't do this. 589 00:33:06,702 --> 00:33:09,540 - You have to. - I can't do this. 590 00:33:09,540 --> 00:33:11,327 - You must, you must. 591 00:33:12,208 --> 00:33:15,028 - Mom, your hands are cold. 592 00:33:15,028 --> 00:33:15,861 Mom, Mom? 593 00:33:15,861 --> 00:33:16,694 Mom! 594 00:33:16,694 --> 00:33:17,861 You okay, Mom? 595 00:33:20,029 --> 00:33:20,862 Mom? 596 00:33:22,058 --> 00:33:23,450 - We've manage to stabilize her, but we're gonna have 597 00:33:23,450 --> 00:33:26,020 to keep her under observation for next couple of weeks. 598 00:33:26,020 --> 00:33:27,990 - For a week? - Yes. 599 00:33:27,990 --> 00:33:30,270 - Oh my gosh, she going to be so devastated. 600 00:33:30,270 --> 00:33:32,790 She's suppose to be on her medical tour to Africa. 601 00:33:32,790 --> 00:33:34,080 - She would never make it. 602 00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:37,150 She's dehydrated, exhausted and her heart's in no condition 603 00:33:37,150 --> 00:33:39,930 to be under any strenuous activities. 604 00:33:39,930 --> 00:33:41,190 She will be fine, though. 605 00:33:41,190 --> 00:33:42,420 - I know. 606 00:33:42,420 --> 00:33:43,570 Thanks. 607 00:33:43,570 --> 00:33:45,993 - Dr. Zara, I will look after your mother. 608 00:33:46,930 --> 00:33:47,963 - Thank you so much. 609 00:33:50,408 --> 00:33:52,560 - Oh, hi darling. 610 00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:53,720 - How are you going? 611 00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:56,840 - What day is it? - Saturday. 612 00:33:56,840 --> 00:33:59,563 - But my trip. - It's been canceled. 613 00:34:05,990 --> 00:34:07,963 - We can't disappoint those women. 614 00:34:10,403 --> 00:34:11,653 They are depending on me. 615 00:34:14,160 --> 00:34:19,160 We have over 1,000 women waiting to be treated. 616 00:34:19,360 --> 00:34:21,340 - I know Mom, but right now we're really more 617 00:34:21,340 --> 00:34:23,490 concerned about your health and you should. 618 00:34:24,370 --> 00:34:25,590 Relax, okay? 619 00:34:25,590 --> 00:34:26,590 How are you feeling? 620 00:34:28,410 --> 00:34:29,720 You still have the headache? 621 00:34:29,720 --> 00:34:30,553 And your back? 622 00:34:31,780 --> 00:34:33,490 I need you to relax, okay? 623 00:34:33,490 --> 00:34:36,890 The doctor's gonna take care of you, okay? 624 00:34:36,890 --> 00:34:39,887 Just relax, all right, Mom, 'kay? 625 00:34:42,724 --> 00:34:45,307 (gentle music) 626 00:34:51,780 --> 00:34:55,050 Alex, it took my a lot to write this letter 627 00:34:55,050 --> 00:34:58,963 and I'm sorry to leave the country without seeing you. 628 00:34:59,890 --> 00:35:03,070 I know I have been acting weird lately and... 629 00:35:04,310 --> 00:35:06,170 But there are just some things in my past that I need 630 00:35:06,170 --> 00:35:09,653 to confront, some truth that I need to know. 631 00:35:10,616 --> 00:35:15,616 You have been amazing and I cannot ask for anyone better, 632 00:35:16,210 --> 00:35:19,020 but for us to move forward in our relationship, 633 00:35:19,020 --> 00:35:21,690 I need to sort some things out, you know? 634 00:35:21,690 --> 00:35:22,673 Like I said to you. 635 00:35:24,410 --> 00:35:27,090 I'm going back home and I just hope 636 00:35:27,090 --> 00:35:29,183 everything goes as I planned. 637 00:35:30,150 --> 00:35:31,173 Be patient with me. 638 00:35:32,135 --> 00:35:33,764 I will always love you. 639 00:35:33,764 --> 00:35:36,514 (rhythmic music) 640 00:36:00,770 --> 00:36:03,100 - [Zara] Thank you so much for picking me up. 641 00:36:03,100 --> 00:36:05,130 - It's my pleasure. 642 00:36:05,130 --> 00:36:07,220 When your mother told me that her daughter 643 00:36:07,220 --> 00:36:10,403 was coming to help, I was overjoyed. 644 00:36:11,620 --> 00:36:14,030 She's told me so much about you, that I've actually 645 00:36:14,030 --> 00:36:16,670 been looking forward to meeting with you. 646 00:36:16,670 --> 00:36:17,980 - Well, we finally meet. 647 00:36:17,980 --> 00:36:20,420 She has also said good things about you too. 648 00:36:20,420 --> 00:36:22,310 - Oh, thank you. 649 00:36:22,310 --> 00:36:25,633 And thanks for coming to come help in our small hospital. 650 00:36:27,250 --> 00:36:31,080 Your mother has been of such great help all these years. 651 00:36:31,080 --> 00:36:34,290 - Well, I just pray that I will be able to help the little 652 00:36:34,290 --> 00:36:36,540 that I can before she comes on her next trip, 653 00:36:36,540 --> 00:36:37,895 because I know she would. 654 00:36:37,895 --> 00:36:38,728 (laughs) 655 00:36:38,728 --> 00:36:40,805 - [Matron] I'm sure you would. 656 00:36:40,805 --> 00:36:43,170 But first I will take you to your hotel. 657 00:36:43,170 --> 00:36:44,490 - Okay. - And then tomorrow 658 00:36:44,490 --> 00:36:46,930 I'll come pick you to the hospital. 659 00:37:03,494 --> 00:37:05,380 - Your mother told me that you're pregnant. 660 00:37:05,380 --> 00:37:06,960 Congratulations. 661 00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:09,042 Your husband did not waste at all. 662 00:37:09,042 --> 00:37:11,350 (speaks a foreign language) 663 00:37:11,350 --> 00:37:12,763 Don't mind me. 664 00:37:14,640 --> 00:37:17,950 I hope there's no problem and that your mother in-law is 665 00:37:17,950 --> 00:37:19,600 not giving you too much problems? 666 00:37:20,900 --> 00:37:22,830 What about the small, small witches? 667 00:37:22,830 --> 00:37:25,423 Your husband's wives? - No. 668 00:37:26,510 --> 00:37:29,070 - If you need anything there, don't hesitate. 669 00:37:29,070 --> 00:37:31,257 Just come and ask me, eh? 670 00:37:31,257 --> 00:37:32,090 - Okay. 671 00:37:33,546 --> 00:37:35,160 Thank you. 672 00:37:35,160 --> 00:37:36,590 - Be walking gently, eh? 673 00:37:36,590 --> 00:37:37,423 - [Halima] Okay. 674 00:37:37,423 --> 00:37:38,353 - Take care of yourself. 675 00:37:42,203 --> 00:37:43,483 - Look at my daughter! 676 00:37:44,540 --> 00:37:47,460 Isn't she beautiful? - She's beautiful. 677 00:37:47,460 --> 00:37:50,980 - She'll give me a grandchild one of these days, very soon. 678 00:37:50,980 --> 00:37:53,930 She has proven that she is the true daughter of her mother. 679 00:37:58,720 --> 00:38:01,568 Hello, how are you? 680 00:38:01,568 --> 00:38:03,160 Halima, what took you so long? 681 00:38:03,160 --> 00:38:06,072 - I saw my mother's friend Dillaliya. 682 00:38:06,072 --> 00:38:07,072 - Dillaliya? 683 00:38:08,358 --> 00:38:09,191 Dillaliya? 684 00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:12,000 That village gossip! 685 00:38:13,610 --> 00:38:16,720 I can't wait to deal with that woman one of these days. 686 00:38:20,640 --> 00:38:23,203 We don't want that kind of association in this family. 687 00:38:28,487 --> 00:38:30,071 Huh, 688 00:38:30,071 --> 00:38:30,904 Dillaliya? 689 00:38:40,148 --> 00:38:42,648 (light music) 690 00:38:47,545 --> 00:38:48,717 - [Group] Matron, good morning! 691 00:38:48,717 --> 00:38:49,550 - How are you? 692 00:38:49,550 --> 00:38:50,905 - [Group] Very good. 693 00:38:50,905 --> 00:38:53,988 (muffled chattering) 694 00:39:03,720 --> 00:39:06,490 - So that's the nurses' station, 695 00:39:06,490 --> 00:39:07,886 and here we have the-- 696 00:39:07,886 --> 00:39:09,097 - Good morning, matron. 697 00:39:09,097 --> 00:39:11,420 What are we going to do with this case? 698 00:39:11,420 --> 00:39:12,410 - Which one is this? 699 00:39:12,410 --> 00:39:14,160 - The one with the failing surgery. 700 00:39:15,350 --> 00:39:19,390 - Oh, Dr. Zara, Mrs. Robin's daughter. 701 00:39:19,390 --> 00:39:21,050 She'll be spending a few weeks with us. 702 00:39:21,050 --> 00:39:22,810 - Oh, she's the one? 703 00:39:22,810 --> 00:39:23,793 It's a pleasure to have you here. 704 00:39:23,793 --> 00:39:25,430 - It's a pleasure to be here. 705 00:39:25,430 --> 00:39:27,700 - You're welcomed. - Thank you. 706 00:39:27,700 --> 00:39:30,200 - Have you talked to Dr. Londi about this case? 707 00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:31,073 - He's on leave. 708 00:39:32,030 --> 00:39:32,940 - Since when? 709 00:39:32,940 --> 00:39:34,690 - [Nurse Ramatu] Over a week now. 710 00:39:34,690 --> 00:39:35,793 - Who authorize it? 711 00:39:36,888 --> 00:39:38,290 - Don't know. 712 00:39:38,290 --> 00:39:40,993 - Not a worry, I'll handle this. 713 00:39:43,060 --> 00:39:43,973 - Everything okay? 714 00:39:46,040 --> 00:39:48,400 - Much as I hate to admit it, 715 00:39:48,400 --> 00:39:51,234 we'll definitely be needing your help here. 716 00:39:51,234 --> 00:39:54,393 - Oh, how many surgeries do you carry out in a day? 717 00:39:55,320 --> 00:39:56,153 - One. 718 00:39:57,060 --> 00:39:58,733 If we're lucky, maybe two. 719 00:39:59,950 --> 00:40:01,810 These are trying times. 720 00:40:01,810 --> 00:40:06,480 It used to be like 10 a day, but with no more support, 721 00:40:06,480 --> 00:40:09,283 everyone just keep silent about the condition. 722 00:40:14,990 --> 00:40:17,240 - There are lots of women here. 723 00:40:17,240 --> 00:40:20,370 - Every time I see them my heart bleeds. 724 00:40:20,370 --> 00:40:22,310 But we are looking for more preventives ways 725 00:40:22,310 --> 00:40:24,243 to keep them out of this condition. 726 00:40:26,660 --> 00:40:28,380 - Can I see the file on the girl? 727 00:40:28,380 --> 00:40:30,550 - Oh yeah, and that's the girl. 728 00:40:30,550 --> 00:40:31,383 - Oh. 729 00:40:35,550 --> 00:40:38,463 - I can't understand why her surgeries keep failing. 730 00:40:39,980 --> 00:40:43,250 - Well, I can see here that the hole on her bladder 731 00:40:43,250 --> 00:40:46,010 has been closed, but the bladder function 732 00:40:46,010 --> 00:40:50,670 has still not been restored, and I think we have to start 733 00:40:50,670 --> 00:40:53,303 by doing a urodynamics examination on her. 734 00:40:55,910 --> 00:40:58,230 What more can we do to stop this? 735 00:40:58,230 --> 00:41:00,540 - We have been battling with this condition now 736 00:41:00,540 --> 00:41:02,420 for the past 10 years now. 737 00:41:02,420 --> 00:41:04,980 Yet they still fall victim. 738 00:41:04,980 --> 00:41:08,870 They still believe in early marriages, female circumcision, 739 00:41:08,870 --> 00:41:10,120 and giving birth at home. 740 00:41:13,410 --> 00:41:14,833 - Let me handle this case. 741 00:41:16,180 --> 00:41:18,963 - You were meant to observe today. 742 00:41:19,920 --> 00:41:23,240 - I have seen enough from a distance, I can tell you. 743 00:41:23,240 --> 00:41:25,010 Where do all these women come from? 744 00:41:25,010 --> 00:41:26,563 - From all over the country. 745 00:41:27,600 --> 00:41:29,556 It's no longer the thing of the north. 746 00:41:29,556 --> 00:41:31,180 We have so many woman out there 747 00:41:31,180 --> 00:41:33,590 who don't even believe they can still be cured. 748 00:41:33,590 --> 00:41:35,750 - I need to do one more operation on her. 749 00:41:35,750 --> 00:41:36,750 Prepare her. 750 00:41:38,701 --> 00:41:41,201 (light music) 751 00:42:01,881 --> 00:42:03,521 (screaming) 752 00:42:03,521 --> 00:42:04,938 - Fatima! Fatima! 753 00:42:08,510 --> 00:42:09,663 She's not here? 754 00:42:09,663 --> 00:42:10,496 - No she's not. 755 00:42:10,496 --> 00:42:12,123 - I think you should go and find this woman by yourself. 756 00:42:12,123 --> 00:42:13,462 - I don't know her house Hajia. 757 00:42:13,462 --> 00:42:14,604 - Where's Sani? 758 00:42:14,604 --> 00:42:15,798 Let him to go and look for her. 759 00:42:15,798 --> 00:42:16,631 - [Fatima] I should call Sani. 760 00:42:16,631 --> 00:42:19,874 - Let them go and look for her! 761 00:42:19,874 --> 00:42:20,853 - Hajia, he's here 762 00:42:20,853 --> 00:42:21,957 - [ Hajia] Why don't you go 763 00:42:21,957 --> 00:42:24,013 and find the birth attendant now? 764 00:42:24,013 --> 00:42:26,250 - Ma, I don't know, I don't know. 765 00:42:26,250 --> 00:42:27,813 I don't know where she is. 766 00:42:27,813 --> 00:42:30,396 - [Hajia] I said you should go to Adamu's compound, 767 00:42:30,396 --> 00:42:32,298 ask them they will tell show you where she is. 768 00:42:32,298 --> 00:42:33,601 - Okay. 769 00:42:33,601 --> 00:42:35,184 - Sorry, I'm sorry. 770 00:42:52,526 --> 00:42:53,359 - I still feel we should take her to the hospital. 771 00:42:53,359 --> 00:42:55,790 - No, Hajia, no worries, I already check her. 772 00:42:55,790 --> 00:42:59,723 Her tummy worries, when her tummy rests she will deliver. 773 00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:04,490 - Why don't you give her at least something? 774 00:43:04,490 --> 00:43:05,323 - Okay, give her this-- 775 00:43:05,323 --> 00:43:06,950 - She's carrying my grandchild. 776 00:43:06,950 --> 00:43:08,203 - Give her this one. 777 00:43:14,401 --> 00:43:16,241 - I don't trust this, I think we should take Halima 778 00:43:16,241 --> 00:43:17,074 to the hospital-- 779 00:43:17,074 --> 00:43:21,157 (shouting in a foreign language) 780 00:43:40,230 --> 00:43:43,230 - [Fatima] Let's go to the hospital! 781 00:44:04,130 --> 00:44:05,730 - Alhaji, have you seen my shop? 782 00:44:06,870 --> 00:44:09,713 Alhaji just look at my babes and make your pick. 783 00:44:10,860 --> 00:44:11,860 - Who is she? 784 00:44:11,860 --> 00:44:15,493 - Wow, she's new in the business. 785 00:44:18,836 --> 00:44:20,270 - I think I like to go with this one, 786 00:44:20,270 --> 00:44:21,240 I can go for her. 787 00:44:21,240 --> 00:44:23,373 - Okay, I'll deliver her to you. 788 00:44:24,329 --> 00:44:26,280 Be the first to taste her. 789 00:44:26,280 --> 00:44:27,113 - Hey! 790 00:44:27,980 --> 00:44:28,963 Madam Kojo! 791 00:44:38,386 --> 00:44:40,100 - She bit your ears? 792 00:44:40,100 --> 00:44:41,620 You think you can ruin my business? 793 00:44:41,620 --> 00:44:46,620 You little rat, you almost made me lose a valuable customer. 794 00:44:47,340 --> 00:44:49,190 Take her away and do to her what we do 795 00:44:49,190 --> 00:44:51,069 to disobedient servants. 796 00:44:51,069 --> 00:44:52,284 You can do anything. 797 00:44:52,284 --> 00:44:54,701 Stupid girl, make her suffer. 798 00:45:00,523 --> 00:45:04,690 (woman mumbling and making noise) 799 00:45:06,825 --> 00:45:09,575 (metal knocking) 800 00:45:16,240 --> 00:45:17,090 - Good afternoon. 801 00:45:19,400 --> 00:45:21,940 - Um, I'm looking for Madam Kojo. 802 00:45:21,940 --> 00:45:23,183 - Madam Kojo? 803 00:45:26,110 --> 00:45:28,177 - Well, where can I find her? 804 00:45:29,123 --> 00:45:30,173 - I don't know. 805 00:45:34,203 --> 00:45:36,870 - Ragamu, where is, where is it? 806 00:45:39,047 --> 00:45:41,453 - Look around here, ask the people around this area, 807 00:45:41,453 --> 00:45:42,857 they will tell you. 808 00:45:42,857 --> 00:45:45,774 - But she used to live here before. 809 00:46:00,025 --> 00:46:02,358 (screaming) 810 00:46:04,448 --> 00:46:07,031 (somber music) 811 00:46:46,718 --> 00:46:50,718 (yelling in a foreign language) 812 00:47:08,420 --> 00:47:11,640 - He said when we get to Ragamu, we should ask of her. 813 00:47:11,640 --> 00:47:13,113 Do you know how to get there 814 00:47:13,113 --> 00:47:15,689 or I should I just call someone else? 815 00:47:15,689 --> 00:47:16,522 - Ragamu? 816 00:47:18,420 --> 00:47:19,253 - Yes. 817 00:47:20,090 --> 00:47:22,150 - That's quite far away from town. 818 00:47:22,150 --> 00:47:24,760 I didn't know the new doctor is a local. 819 00:47:24,760 --> 00:47:26,090 - No I was just talking to the driver 820 00:47:26,090 --> 00:47:28,120 to see if he can get me there. 821 00:47:28,120 --> 00:47:29,360 - Oh, okay. 822 00:47:29,360 --> 00:47:31,400 Well, Dr. Londi. 823 00:47:31,400 --> 00:47:34,036 - Oh, Dr. Zara. 824 00:47:34,036 --> 00:47:35,410 - Oh? 825 00:47:35,410 --> 00:47:37,680 - Oh, yes, I was actually looking forward to meeting you. 826 00:47:37,680 --> 00:47:39,143 I heard you were on leave. 827 00:47:40,181 --> 00:47:42,993 - As you can see obviously I'm back to the same struggle. 828 00:47:43,830 --> 00:47:45,280 I could drive you down there. 829 00:47:46,290 --> 00:47:48,130 I mean, I mean to Ragamu. 830 00:47:48,130 --> 00:47:51,253 - Oh, no, don't worry, doc, the driver will take me. 831 00:47:52,328 --> 00:47:53,880 - All right, you're welcomed. 832 00:47:53,880 --> 00:47:56,100 I hope you don't crash and burn under the pressure. 833 00:47:56,100 --> 00:47:57,157 - I hope not too. 834 00:47:58,421 --> 00:48:00,743 - Okay, I heard you fixed the girl. 835 00:48:02,720 --> 00:48:06,002 Her case has been quite challenging. 836 00:48:06,002 --> 00:48:08,102 - Well, I'm happy that I could be of help. 837 00:48:08,950 --> 00:48:12,340 - Modest, I would say for a doctor of your caliber. 838 00:48:12,340 --> 00:48:14,810 Well, um, they will keep coming with the same cases 839 00:48:14,810 --> 00:48:18,200 over and over again, so roll up your sleeves. 840 00:48:18,200 --> 00:48:19,870 Nice to meet you. 841 00:48:19,870 --> 00:48:20,703 - Same here. 842 00:48:22,000 --> 00:48:24,170 - Well, hope you enjoy it. 843 00:48:24,170 --> 00:48:25,620 - I hope so. 844 00:48:25,620 --> 00:48:28,020 - Your mom always do, whenever she comes around. 845 00:48:39,346 --> 00:48:42,026 (gasps) 846 00:48:42,026 --> 00:48:44,609 (somber music) 847 00:48:56,688 --> 00:48:59,323 - Halima, come, come, come, come. 848 00:48:59,323 --> 00:49:01,750 What's wrong with you, huh? 849 00:49:01,750 --> 00:49:03,078 Why you wet? 850 00:49:03,078 --> 00:49:03,911 (gasps) 851 00:49:03,911 --> 00:49:04,744 Why you dripping? 852 00:49:08,240 --> 00:49:09,147 Let me check you. 853 00:49:10,078 --> 00:49:11,411 This is serious. 854 00:49:22,400 --> 00:49:25,300 - Matron, Nurse Ramatu just told me that 855 00:49:25,300 --> 00:49:26,833 Dr. Londi wants to quit? 856 00:49:29,710 --> 00:49:31,560 - He's not the first one to do that. 857 00:49:31,560 --> 00:49:32,393 - Why? 858 00:49:33,830 --> 00:49:38,650 - Doctor, there is no money in treating fistula patients. 859 00:49:38,650 --> 00:49:42,253 It's a job of passion, no financial reward. 860 00:49:43,130 --> 00:49:45,420 We pick them up after medical school, 861 00:49:45,420 --> 00:49:48,950 train them as fistula surgeons, the next thing, 862 00:49:48,950 --> 00:49:51,383 they want to move to the teaching hospitals. 863 00:49:52,750 --> 00:49:55,333 - How have you been coping all these years? 864 00:49:56,750 --> 00:49:57,703 - God. 865 00:49:59,150 --> 00:50:01,570 In my many years on this job, 866 00:50:01,570 --> 00:50:03,120 your mother knows about it all. 867 00:50:04,150 --> 00:50:07,360 I just believe that when we take pity on the poor, 868 00:50:07,360 --> 00:50:09,903 poor in health, we lend to God. 869 00:50:11,561 --> 00:50:14,740 - But is there no way they get their payment 870 00:50:14,740 --> 00:50:16,890 directly from the government? 871 00:50:16,890 --> 00:50:21,240 - Oh yes, we have sent a proposal to the ministry of health, 872 00:50:21,240 --> 00:50:25,217 we told them, "Pay them and retain them here 873 00:50:25,217 --> 00:50:26,777 "as fistula surgeons." 874 00:50:28,150 --> 00:50:31,620 We can only train because we have to, 875 00:50:31,620 --> 00:50:33,883 but we can't force them to stay. 876 00:50:40,340 --> 00:50:41,570 - Dr. Londi, think about it. 877 00:50:41,570 --> 00:50:42,853 - Think about what, Zara? 878 00:50:42,853 --> 00:50:44,520 I can't do this anymore. 879 00:50:44,520 --> 00:50:46,350 I've got a wife, I've got one, two, three kids, 880 00:50:46,350 --> 00:50:49,220 I've got aged parents, I've got cousins, siblings 881 00:50:49,220 --> 00:50:51,970 all staying in my place, waiting for manna to fall 882 00:50:51,970 --> 00:50:53,580 from heaven, and you know? 883 00:50:53,580 --> 00:50:55,960 I am the provider of that manna. 884 00:50:55,960 --> 00:50:57,225 Don't you understand? 885 00:50:57,225 --> 00:50:58,058 - But you save the little you can. 886 00:50:58,058 --> 00:51:00,696 You are a medical doctor, your duty is to save lives. 887 00:51:00,696 --> 00:51:01,890 (laughs) 888 00:51:01,890 --> 00:51:04,670 - But guess what, I did not sign a vow of poverty. 889 00:51:04,670 --> 00:51:05,877 There are so many opportunities out there 890 00:51:05,877 --> 00:51:08,593 and I'm going in search of one, please. 891 00:51:10,520 --> 00:51:14,750 Now listen, it's rather depressing going home in this gear 892 00:51:14,750 --> 00:51:17,063 everyday and with the smell. 893 00:51:24,072 --> 00:51:24,905 I've made up my mind. 894 00:51:24,905 --> 00:51:27,930 You're not going to get Londi this time, honestly. 895 00:51:27,930 --> 00:51:32,930 I'm gone, Londi, you're gone, Londi, you gone. (whistles) 896 00:51:35,937 --> 00:51:38,520 (somber music) 897 00:51:44,477 --> 00:51:47,227 (wooden banging) 898 00:51:50,642 --> 00:51:52,400 (grunts) 899 00:51:52,400 --> 00:51:55,400 - What are you doing here? 900 00:51:55,400 --> 00:51:56,813 - Halima, come here, come. 901 00:51:58,141 --> 00:51:58,974 Come here. 902 00:52:00,250 --> 00:52:01,083 Sit. 903 00:52:02,110 --> 00:52:05,427 Halima, do not let them get to you, okay? 904 00:52:05,427 --> 00:52:08,320 - I don't know what is wrong with me. 905 00:52:08,320 --> 00:52:10,800 - Nothing is wrong with you, my dear, nothing. 906 00:52:10,800 --> 00:52:12,400 - Oh please! 907 00:52:12,400 --> 00:52:13,700 Why you lie to her? 908 00:52:13,700 --> 00:52:16,510 She obviously some kind of abomination to have this 909 00:52:16,510 --> 00:52:18,700 kind of disease. (spits) 910 00:52:18,700 --> 00:52:21,290 - Isn't that the same thing that happened to Ayesha? 911 00:52:21,290 --> 00:52:22,360 They said she committed adultery. 912 00:52:22,360 --> 00:52:24,203 - Mariam, keep quiet! 913 00:52:25,280 --> 00:52:27,330 You both should be ashamed of yourselves. 914 00:52:28,320 --> 00:52:30,888 This poor girl have just lost her baby recently. 915 00:52:30,888 --> 00:52:32,332 Where is your conscience, you two? 916 00:52:32,332 --> 00:52:34,415 Where is your conscience? 917 00:52:37,318 --> 00:52:39,387 Come, let me clean you up, okay? 918 00:52:39,387 --> 00:52:40,864 Don't worry, you'll be okay. 919 00:52:40,864 --> 00:52:42,947 (laughs) 920 00:52:47,160 --> 00:52:50,753 (speaks a foreign language) 921 00:52:50,753 --> 00:52:52,039 (spits) 922 00:52:52,039 --> 00:52:54,622 (somber music) 923 00:53:01,026 --> 00:53:03,109 (knocks) 924 00:53:27,233 --> 00:53:29,316 (knocks) 925 00:53:35,899 --> 00:53:37,703 - Open the door for me. 926 00:53:37,703 --> 00:53:38,703 - All right. 927 00:53:41,876 --> 00:53:43,027 Halimagida, you're here. 928 00:53:43,027 --> 00:53:43,860 - Can I come in? 929 00:53:43,860 --> 00:53:44,693 - Welcome. 930 00:53:44,693 --> 00:53:45,693 - Thank you. 931 00:53:48,683 --> 00:53:51,433 (rhythmic music) 932 00:54:03,827 --> 00:54:04,660 - Hello. 933 00:54:21,202 --> 00:54:23,785 (somber music) 934 00:54:42,280 --> 00:54:44,947 (bird chirping) 935 00:54:56,564 --> 00:54:57,563 (screaming 936 00:54:57,563 --> 00:54:58,646 - Push, push! 937 00:55:04,065 --> 00:55:05,910 - Madam Kojo. 938 00:55:05,910 --> 00:55:07,493 Do you remember me? 939 00:55:15,690 --> 00:55:16,633 It's Zara. 940 00:55:20,630 --> 00:55:21,673 Where's my child? 941 00:55:41,560 --> 00:55:42,450 Where is my baby? 942 00:55:44,900 --> 00:55:47,850 Mom, she couldn't tell me anything. 943 00:55:47,850 --> 00:55:50,647 It looks like I will never know what happened to her. 944 00:55:51,900 --> 00:55:54,991 I don't even know why I came here in the first place. 945 00:55:54,991 --> 00:55:56,250 Mom, I just need to find her, 946 00:55:56,250 --> 00:55:59,000 that's all I want is to find her. 947 00:56:00,020 --> 00:56:00,853 - [Mrs. Robbins] Zara. 948 00:56:00,853 --> 00:56:01,890 - Yes? 949 00:56:01,890 --> 00:56:03,190 - [Mrs. Robbins] you're in Africa. 950 00:56:03,190 --> 00:56:05,900 Get closure on this so you can move on with your life. 951 00:56:07,972 --> 00:56:10,528 (people chattering excitedly) 952 00:56:10,528 --> 00:56:13,028 (baby crying) 953 00:56:23,689 --> 00:56:27,522 (yells in a foreign language) 954 00:56:35,975 --> 00:56:37,570 - The whole village is talking about Halima 955 00:56:37,570 --> 00:56:40,470 and this dreaded disease she has brought to our household. 956 00:56:42,790 --> 00:56:44,405 - I don't know what to do. 957 00:56:44,405 --> 00:56:46,259 - You don't know what to do? 958 00:56:46,259 --> 00:56:48,637 Hey, son, you don't know what to do? 959 00:56:48,637 --> 00:56:51,490 Well if you don't know what to do, I do. 960 00:56:51,490 --> 00:56:54,050 I will arrange to send her to the buka's house. 961 00:56:54,050 --> 00:56:56,330 Because I even suspect that this is an evil attack 962 00:56:56,330 --> 00:56:57,693 or even witchcraft, Sani. 963 00:56:59,148 --> 00:56:59,981 - Hajia! 964 00:57:03,231 --> 00:57:05,500 - Can you imagine the amount the money that we spent on 965 00:57:05,500 --> 00:57:07,500 that girl and her family only for them to turn around 966 00:57:07,500 --> 00:57:10,560 and make us a laughing stock in this village? 967 00:57:10,560 --> 00:57:12,489 Don't forget, Sani, the possibility 968 00:57:12,489 --> 00:57:16,373 that she may have even committed adultery. 969 00:57:18,180 --> 00:57:20,051 - I disvirgined the girl. 970 00:57:20,051 --> 00:57:22,330 And she has remained in the confines of this home 971 00:57:22,330 --> 00:57:23,820 since I married her. 972 00:57:23,820 --> 00:57:26,037 - What about that time that she ran away? 973 00:57:26,037 --> 00:57:28,186 What about when she ran away and we couldn't find her 974 00:57:28,186 --> 00:57:29,019 until her mother brought her? 975 00:57:29,019 --> 00:57:31,860 Do you know if she went in search of her old boyfriends? 976 00:57:31,860 --> 00:57:33,280 And then the other time, do you remember? 977 00:57:33,280 --> 00:57:35,110 When I sent her to call Adamu's mother for me, 978 00:57:35,110 --> 00:57:36,717 she went away and never came back, when she got here, 979 00:57:36,717 --> 00:57:38,180 she said she's got lost. 980 00:57:38,180 --> 00:57:40,111 Got lost, Sani, in this tiny village, 981 00:57:40,111 --> 00:57:43,111 where the even cockroaches can find their way to the stream. 982 00:57:43,111 --> 00:57:44,052 Don't be naive, Sani. 983 00:57:44,052 --> 00:57:45,163 Don't be naive! 984 00:57:45,163 --> 00:57:46,110 - They are saying our whole household 985 00:57:46,110 --> 00:57:48,790 is infected with disease, Halimagida 986 00:57:48,790 --> 00:57:49,623 - Everyone smell, you know? 987 00:57:49,623 --> 00:57:51,830 And people should stop coming to our house. 988 00:57:51,830 --> 00:57:54,380 We are just coming from Kiki's place. 989 00:57:54,380 --> 00:57:55,550 It's Fatima. 990 00:57:55,550 --> 00:57:56,383 Fatima! 991 00:57:56,383 --> 00:57:57,216 - What is it, Mariam? 992 00:57:57,216 --> 00:58:00,445 You people should leave the poor girl alone. 993 00:58:00,445 --> 00:58:01,510 - Have I not warned you before, 994 00:58:01,510 --> 00:58:03,010 have I not told not to take her out? 995 00:58:03,010 --> 00:58:04,963 - But mama, she has to go out. 996 00:58:06,951 --> 00:58:09,070 - Hey, it's enough! 997 00:58:09,070 --> 00:58:12,030 Halima, we will have put you in a room where you stay 998 00:58:12,030 --> 00:58:14,690 for a while before I decide on what to do with you. 999 00:58:14,690 --> 00:58:16,733 No going out and no cooking. 1000 00:58:24,902 --> 00:58:26,902 - What is the emergency? 1001 00:58:27,810 --> 00:58:29,070 - All the doctors have resigned. 1002 00:58:29,070 --> 00:58:29,903 - What? 1003 00:58:29,903 --> 00:58:32,320 - As soon as Dr. Londi left, they all got discouraged. 1004 00:58:32,320 --> 00:58:34,890 Right now we have a back log of women waiting for 1005 00:58:34,890 --> 00:58:38,460 repairs and we are short of medical supplies. 1006 00:58:38,460 --> 00:58:39,293 - What are we going to do? 1007 00:58:39,293 --> 00:58:41,117 I mean, who is going to pay for their surgeries? 1008 00:58:41,117 --> 00:58:43,740 - People in the rural area cannot even afford to pay 1009 00:58:43,740 --> 00:58:46,310 for the first procedures in the surgery. 1010 00:58:46,310 --> 00:58:48,210 - Can't leave them here. 1011 00:58:48,210 --> 00:58:49,753 Who is the current Minister of Health? 1012 00:58:49,753 --> 00:58:52,030 - Miss Zara Robbins. 1013 00:58:52,030 --> 00:58:55,440 I am quite touched by your zeal on fistula. 1014 00:58:55,440 --> 00:58:57,180 This is the ministry of health 1015 00:58:57,180 --> 00:59:01,890 and we do supervise every kind of medical condition 1016 00:59:01,890 --> 00:59:04,010 We've been working on Fistula for years. 1017 00:59:04,010 --> 00:59:09,010 But we have some budget constraints at the moment. 1018 00:59:09,270 --> 00:59:12,290 I will suggest you try the office of the MDGs. 1019 00:59:12,290 --> 00:59:13,890 Maybe they can help you for now. 1020 00:59:14,736 --> 00:59:16,440 - What do we do, Dillaliya? 1021 00:59:16,440 --> 00:59:17,560 - Didn't I say it? 1022 00:59:17,560 --> 00:59:19,759 I knew that Sani's mother is a witch. 1023 00:59:19,759 --> 00:59:21,800 Look at what has befallen our pretty Halima 1024 00:59:21,800 --> 00:59:23,438 in the hands of that wicked family. 1025 00:59:23,438 --> 00:59:25,855 - Dillaliya? Solution please. 1026 00:59:34,790 --> 00:59:36,643 - Who told you to take her out of this compound? 1027 00:59:38,170 --> 00:59:39,720 Is it not enough that the whole village is talking 1028 00:59:39,720 --> 00:59:42,410 about this dreaded disease that she brought upon our family? 1029 00:59:42,410 --> 00:59:43,700 You had to go and parade her around, 1030 00:59:43,700 --> 00:59:45,360 round the whole village? 1031 00:59:45,360 --> 00:59:47,540 - Mama, We just went to the market to pick up some fish. 1032 00:59:47,540 --> 00:59:48,800 You know she hasn't left this house since. 1033 00:59:48,800 --> 00:59:51,270 - What do you mean, she has not left the house since? 1034 00:59:51,270 --> 00:59:53,290 Since she brought this disease unto our family, 1035 00:59:53,290 --> 00:59:56,103 do you know the kind of disgrace that my son has received? 1036 00:59:58,240 --> 01:00:01,002 Young lady, this is not the time to cry, let me tell you. 1037 01:00:01,002 --> 01:00:02,210 Do you understand that? 1038 01:00:02,210 --> 01:00:05,854 You stay in your room until we decide what to do with you. 1039 01:00:05,854 --> 01:00:08,333 - We will wait for our husband to tell us what to do. 1040 01:00:10,748 --> 01:00:12,180 - Fatima! 1041 01:00:12,180 --> 01:00:13,520 Your husband! 1042 01:00:13,520 --> 01:00:16,430 Let me remind you in case you have forgotten, that he is 1043 01:00:16,430 --> 01:00:19,453 my son and I make the decision here in his absence. 1044 01:00:20,340 --> 01:00:22,470 So you don't stand there and tell me anything 1045 01:00:22,470 --> 01:00:23,860 about anything. 1046 01:00:23,860 --> 01:00:26,798 Now, you go to your room and go and do your cooking 1047 01:00:26,798 --> 01:00:28,710 and while you are at it Fatima, clean her up 1048 01:00:28,710 --> 01:00:30,623 before the whole house starts smelling. 1049 01:00:44,330 --> 01:00:45,880 - Go back to your father. 1050 01:00:45,880 --> 01:00:49,640 Go and let your family share in this embarrassment. 1051 01:00:49,640 --> 01:00:51,370 Why should I be the only one to suffer? 1052 01:00:51,370 --> 01:00:52,653 What did I do wrong? 1053 01:00:53,540 --> 01:00:56,724 I waited for you, bought gifts for your family, 1054 01:00:56,724 --> 01:00:58,030 married you the right way. 1055 01:00:58,030 --> 01:00:59,990 What was my crime? 1056 01:00:59,990 --> 01:01:01,100 Please go! 1057 01:01:01,100 --> 01:01:02,990 Whatever your sins are, 1058 01:01:02,990 --> 01:01:05,149 I will not suffer along with you. 1059 01:01:05,149 --> 01:01:06,589 - Husband, please. 1060 01:01:06,589 --> 01:01:07,894 - Who is your husband? 1061 01:01:07,894 --> 01:01:09,690 You are the one who knows who you slept with 1062 01:01:09,690 --> 01:01:12,517 that gave you this terrible disease. 1063 01:01:12,517 --> 01:01:14,372 - Halimagida, please I beg you. 1064 01:01:14,372 --> 01:01:16,817 I didn't sleep with anyone. 1065 01:01:16,817 --> 01:01:19,017 Please don't chase me away. 1066 01:01:19,017 --> 01:01:20,860 My parents won't receive me. 1067 01:01:20,860 --> 01:01:23,013 - Why won't they reject you, you witch? 1068 01:01:26,613 --> 01:01:29,007 I don't know what made me waste my money on you. 1069 01:01:29,007 --> 01:01:31,020 The whole house smells. 1070 01:01:31,020 --> 01:01:34,160 My friends can no longer come and pay me a visit, 1071 01:01:34,160 --> 01:01:37,420 and to worsen it you can't bear children anymore. 1072 01:01:37,420 --> 01:01:39,660 Who will want to sleep with a rotten pig like you? 1073 01:01:39,660 --> 01:01:41,051 Who? 1074 01:01:41,051 --> 01:01:41,884 Hey, listen to me! 1075 01:01:41,884 --> 01:01:42,908 - What happened, huh? 1076 01:01:42,908 --> 01:01:44,491 Halima! - Excuse me! 1077 01:01:47,150 --> 01:01:49,049 If I see you near her, 1078 01:01:49,049 --> 01:01:52,666 you'll pack your things to your father's house. 1079 01:01:52,666 --> 01:01:53,994 - Please, please, 1080 01:01:53,994 --> 01:01:56,928 she's just a little girl, Hajia, please, please! 1081 01:01:56,928 --> 01:02:00,011 (Halima sobs weakly) 1082 01:02:13,553 --> 01:02:15,371 - Hajia please. 1083 01:02:15,371 --> 01:02:17,157 - Hajia, please, see the little girl in front to you. 1084 01:02:17,157 --> 01:02:19,074 Please beg out husband. 1085 01:02:22,467 --> 01:02:23,300 - Please. 1086 01:02:27,464 --> 01:02:28,297 - Come on. 1087 01:02:30,030 --> 01:02:32,947 Don't worry, it's going to be okay. 1088 01:02:39,297 --> 01:02:41,539 - Please Halimagida, please. 1089 01:02:41,539 --> 01:02:44,879 She's our daughter, where will she go? 1090 01:02:44,879 --> 01:02:45,890 She's not a witch, please don't listen to them. 1091 01:02:47,975 --> 01:02:48,808 - Please. 1092 01:02:55,284 --> 01:02:56,214 - She has to go. 1093 01:02:56,214 --> 01:02:57,456 - Where will she go? 1094 01:02:57,456 --> 01:02:59,289 There's nowhere to go. 1095 01:03:04,749 --> 01:03:08,618 - My hands are tied, there is nothing I can do. 1096 01:03:08,618 --> 01:03:10,742 - She needs us now, she needs us. 1097 01:03:10,742 --> 01:03:11,575 - Please. 1098 01:03:14,882 --> 01:03:15,716 - Please. 1099 01:03:15,716 --> 01:03:19,383 (speaks a foreign language) 1100 01:03:22,180 --> 01:03:24,430 What kind of a man are you? 1101 01:03:26,973 --> 01:03:29,556 (gentle music) 1102 01:03:46,623 --> 01:03:48,040 - Halima, Halima. 1103 01:04:08,211 --> 01:04:10,522 - I wish I would die. 1104 01:04:10,522 --> 01:04:12,500 The dead are better than me. 1105 01:04:12,500 --> 01:04:14,100 - Don't say that, my daughter. 1106 01:04:14,100 --> 01:04:15,820 There must be a solution. 1107 01:04:15,820 --> 01:04:16,970 I brought food for you. 1108 01:04:25,257 --> 01:04:26,090 Eat. 1109 01:04:38,520 --> 01:04:40,210 - I heard there's a new doctor in town 1110 01:04:40,210 --> 01:04:41,623 who can cure your disease. 1111 01:04:42,730 --> 01:04:45,470 I came with some clothes and food for you. 1112 01:04:45,470 --> 01:04:48,540 I'll come and pick you up tomorrow evening, okay? 1113 01:04:48,540 --> 01:04:49,787 I'll take you there. 1114 01:04:55,174 --> 01:04:58,118 (speaks in a foreign language) 1115 01:04:58,118 --> 01:05:01,118 - Fatima, where are you coming from? 1116 01:05:02,863 --> 01:05:05,520 Sit down, you went to Usuman's house. 1117 01:05:05,520 --> 01:05:07,443 Why did you have to stay that long? 1118 01:05:08,370 --> 01:05:11,160 - Um, when I was coming, uh-- 1119 01:05:11,160 --> 01:05:14,040 - Anyway, just sit down, join us. 1120 01:05:14,040 --> 01:05:15,773 We are having a family discussion. 1121 01:05:17,180 --> 01:05:22,180 As I was saying, everyone in the village is now thinking 1122 01:05:22,730 --> 01:05:25,173 that there is something wrong with this family, 1123 01:05:26,520 --> 01:05:29,283 but thank God that Halima is out of here. 1124 01:05:30,230 --> 01:05:33,270 So, the best thing to do now is to marry another wife 1125 01:05:33,270 --> 01:05:35,820 since I have divorced her. 1126 01:05:35,820 --> 01:05:39,023 We need to cleanse this home and restore my dignity. 1127 01:05:40,300 --> 01:05:44,003 - Our husband, we need to be careful this time around. 1128 01:05:45,903 --> 01:05:48,538 I mean, why'd you rush? 1129 01:05:48,538 --> 01:05:51,573 I think we should recover from this Halima issue first. 1130 01:05:52,980 --> 01:05:55,160 - Halimagida, Mariam is right. 1131 01:05:55,160 --> 01:05:58,133 And also we are here to take very good care of you. 1132 01:05:59,947 --> 01:06:03,110 You don't know what another wife might bring. 1133 01:06:03,110 --> 01:06:06,070 We have been living in peace for a while now. 1134 01:06:06,070 --> 01:06:07,240 Please, mai gida, 1135 01:06:07,240 --> 01:06:09,596 don't invite anymore evil into our midst. 1136 01:06:09,596 --> 01:06:10,870 (speaks a foreign language) 1137 01:06:10,870 --> 01:06:12,393 - Let me make this clearer. 1138 01:06:14,910 --> 01:06:17,643 He is not asking for your opinion on this matter. 1139 01:06:20,010 --> 01:06:22,733 He is only sharing his intentions with you. 1140 01:06:23,840 --> 01:06:26,663 His very good intentions. 1141 01:06:28,804 --> 01:06:33,760 - Halimagida, as for me, since you have made up your mind, 1142 01:06:33,760 --> 01:06:35,387 I don't have anything to say. 1143 01:06:53,690 --> 01:06:57,193 - You are a witch, you are a witch, you are a witch! 1144 01:06:57,193 --> 01:06:59,036 - (yelling incomprehensibly) 1145 01:06:59,036 --> 01:07:01,354 You need to see the condition of-- 1146 01:07:01,354 --> 01:07:02,276 - Doctor Mutanga! 1147 01:07:02,276 --> 01:07:03,970 - What is it again? 1148 01:07:03,970 --> 01:07:05,820 - We have another case, so. 1149 01:07:05,820 --> 01:07:06,864 - Another case? 1150 01:07:06,864 --> 01:07:07,697 - [Nurse] Another case. 1151 01:07:07,697 --> 01:07:08,530 - How? 1152 01:07:08,530 --> 01:07:12,607 - Because of this disease you carry, (mumbles). 1153 01:07:12,607 --> 01:07:13,873 - I have told you, don't drop that woman. 1154 01:07:13,873 --> 01:07:14,706 (man shouting incomprehensibly) 1155 01:07:14,706 --> 01:07:17,714 Don't drop that woman there! 1156 01:07:17,714 --> 01:07:19,547 I thought this was supposed to be a hospital! 1157 01:07:19,547 --> 01:07:22,252 Either you serve life, or to kill. 1158 01:07:22,252 --> 01:07:23,460 - Don't drop that woman! 1159 01:07:23,460 --> 01:07:24,894 Come, come back here! 1160 01:07:24,894 --> 01:07:25,727 Come back here! 1161 01:07:25,727 --> 01:07:27,537 Come back, I can't carry this one! 1162 01:07:28,475 --> 01:07:30,975 (woman cries) 1163 01:07:32,971 --> 01:07:35,050 - Please we are here to see the doctor. 1164 01:07:35,050 --> 01:07:36,103 My friend needs help. 1165 01:07:51,620 --> 01:07:52,470 - Fill this form. 1166 01:07:54,368 --> 01:07:55,800 - We can't read or write. 1167 01:07:55,800 --> 01:07:57,140 - Well, sit down there. 1168 01:07:57,140 --> 01:08:00,327 When Ike comes, he will help you fill it. 1169 01:08:25,940 --> 01:08:26,773 - I know. 1170 01:08:32,100 --> 01:08:35,850 (speaking in pidgin English) 1171 01:08:37,031 --> 01:08:42,031 - Oh, man, fu... 1172 01:08:42,188 --> 01:08:43,228 - Dr. Mutanga! 1173 01:08:43,228 --> 01:08:47,997 - No, no, go and, go and put on the generator. 1174 01:08:47,997 --> 01:08:49,997 I am operating here now. 1175 01:08:55,530 --> 01:08:56,980 - Why didn't anybody tell me? 1176 01:08:58,150 --> 01:08:59,832 - [Man] We used the last one this month. 1177 01:08:59,832 --> 01:09:03,096 - Okay, nurse give him some money, eh? 1178 01:09:03,096 --> 01:09:05,194 And you, just hurry up and put on the generator. 1179 01:09:05,194 --> 01:09:06,669 I'm seriously doing something here. 1180 01:09:06,669 --> 01:09:11,669 - Dr. Mutanga, I no get any money. 1181 01:09:13,850 --> 01:09:15,570 - My friend give him the money. 1182 01:09:15,570 --> 01:09:17,017 What's your problem? 1183 01:09:17,017 --> 01:09:17,860 And I warned you people, 1184 01:09:17,860 --> 01:09:20,702 no speaking Pidgin English in this place. 1185 01:09:20,702 --> 01:09:21,535 - Ah! 1186 01:09:23,090 --> 01:09:25,350 - I don't know how to handle her case, honestly. 1187 01:09:25,350 --> 01:09:27,610 I don't know where to start from. 1188 01:09:27,610 --> 01:09:30,730 See, where is the pen? 1189 01:09:30,730 --> 01:09:32,856 - Doctor, it's on your head. 1190 01:09:32,856 --> 01:09:33,970 - Oh, sorry. 1191 01:09:33,970 --> 01:09:38,473 See, the only kind of cases we handle here are child birth, 1192 01:09:40,420 --> 01:09:44,750 you know, appendix, malaria, two plus or three plus, 1193 01:09:44,750 --> 01:09:48,533 typhoid, eczema, meningitis, all this. 1194 01:09:49,680 --> 01:09:53,350 But this case, I don't even have the kind of equipment 1195 01:09:53,350 --> 01:09:55,709 to perform that kind of surgery. 1196 01:09:55,709 --> 01:09:57,910 - But doctor, they told us that you are very good. 1197 01:09:57,910 --> 01:09:59,777 - I'm very good, honestly. 1198 01:09:59,777 --> 01:10:03,080 But I'm sorry, I cannot 1199 01:10:04,480 --> 01:10:06,585 help your friend. 1200 01:10:06,585 --> 01:10:08,280 (slams desk) 1201 01:10:08,280 --> 01:10:09,113 Nurse! 1202 01:10:20,730 --> 01:10:23,270 - Thank you so much, and we are very grateful for, 1203 01:10:23,270 --> 01:10:25,510 you know, assisting us in such a short notice. 1204 01:10:25,510 --> 01:10:26,650 - Anytime. 1205 01:10:26,650 --> 01:10:30,280 Are you still doing the mobile clinic in the rural villages? 1206 01:10:30,280 --> 01:10:33,140 - Oh, yes, I and some doctors are going round the villages 1207 01:10:33,140 --> 01:10:35,950 to operate on these women, and since they can't come to us, 1208 01:10:35,950 --> 01:10:36,990 we have go to them. 1209 01:10:36,990 --> 01:10:39,210 - Of course, of course, that's the best strategy. 1210 01:10:39,210 --> 01:10:41,210 I'll be on my way now, but remember, 1211 01:10:41,210 --> 01:10:42,420 we're always there to help. 1212 01:10:42,420 --> 01:10:43,857 - Thank you, thank you very much. 1213 01:10:43,857 --> 01:10:44,769 Thank you. - Thank you. 1214 01:10:44,769 --> 01:10:45,769 - Thank you. 1215 01:10:53,130 --> 01:10:54,660 (knocking on door) 1216 01:10:54,660 --> 01:10:56,300 - Ayesha! 1217 01:10:56,300 --> 01:10:58,660 How are you doing? 1218 01:10:58,660 --> 01:11:02,010 Look at you, looking all fine and pretty. 1219 01:11:02,010 --> 01:11:03,480 - Thank you. 1220 01:11:03,480 --> 01:11:05,290 - You're going to be discharged next week. 1221 01:11:05,290 --> 01:11:07,404 - I know, Matron told me. 1222 01:11:07,404 --> 01:11:10,080 I hear you're going to the villages? 1223 01:11:10,080 --> 01:11:13,060 - Mhm, next week, in a few weeks, actually. 1224 01:11:13,060 --> 01:11:16,423 - Doctor, please can you start with mine? 1225 01:11:17,670 --> 01:11:22,350 I know this girl that has this condition and she has been 1226 01:11:22,350 --> 01:11:24,463 abandoned by her husband and family. 1227 01:11:25,697 --> 01:11:27,670 I would like you to help her. 1228 01:11:27,670 --> 01:11:29,580 I can take you around the villages. 1229 01:11:29,580 --> 01:11:32,080 - I doubt if you're strong enough to do that. 1230 01:11:32,080 --> 01:11:33,513 - Doctor, please. 1231 01:11:34,640 --> 01:11:36,883 Let me go with your team. 1232 01:11:36,883 --> 01:11:41,360 I understand the language and can assist in any way. 1233 01:11:41,360 --> 01:11:43,930 - Okay, I will think about it, but right now 1234 01:11:43,930 --> 01:11:47,968 I need you to go to your bed and rest, okay? 1235 01:11:47,968 --> 01:11:48,801 - Okay. 1236 01:11:48,801 --> 01:11:49,850 - I'll let you know. 1237 01:11:53,465 --> 01:11:54,395 - Help! 1238 01:11:54,395 --> 01:11:55,951 Somebody help me! 1239 01:11:55,951 --> 01:11:56,932 - What happened to her? 1240 01:11:56,932 --> 01:11:58,160 - She has been in labor for days now. 1241 01:11:58,160 --> 01:11:59,127 - How many days? 1242 01:11:59,127 --> 01:12:01,127 - Four days. - Four days? 1243 01:12:03,730 --> 01:12:07,980 (doctors giving indistinct orders) 1244 01:12:14,025 --> 01:12:14,858 Oh, she's bleeding. 1245 01:12:14,858 --> 01:12:17,120 More gauze, more gauze, more gauze. 1246 01:12:17,120 --> 01:12:18,037 More gauze. 1247 01:12:20,258 --> 01:12:24,296 (heart monitor flat lining) 1248 01:12:24,296 --> 01:12:25,323 No! Wake up! 1249 01:12:32,360 --> 01:12:33,193 God. 1250 01:12:46,481 --> 01:12:48,480 - I heard what happened. 1251 01:12:48,480 --> 01:12:51,370 - If only they had brought her early enough! 1252 01:12:51,370 --> 01:12:53,890 If only they had brought her here on time! 1253 01:12:53,890 --> 01:12:56,900 - This happens while we are still trying to save many. 1254 01:12:56,900 --> 01:12:58,999 We can't save every life. 1255 01:12:58,999 --> 01:13:00,930 - But I could have saved this one. 1256 01:13:00,930 --> 01:13:02,450 Why do they bring her here when they allow her 1257 01:13:02,450 --> 01:13:03,590 to give birth at home? 1258 01:13:03,590 --> 01:13:04,800 What is the point? 1259 01:13:04,800 --> 01:13:07,710 Her records show she attended antenatal care here, 1260 01:13:07,710 --> 01:13:08,820 but when she's about to give birth, 1261 01:13:08,820 --> 01:13:10,510 she's locked up with some quacks! 1262 01:13:10,510 --> 01:13:12,860 And then she's about to die, they remember 1263 01:13:12,860 --> 01:13:14,037 there's a freaking clinic around the corner! 1264 01:13:14,037 --> 01:13:16,390 What's wrong with all these people? 1265 01:13:16,390 --> 01:13:19,270 - These people do not know any better. 1266 01:13:19,270 --> 01:13:23,500 Hey, you don't have to be so hard on yourself. 1267 01:13:23,500 --> 01:13:26,040 We can't entirely comprehend it. 1268 01:13:26,040 --> 01:13:29,860 It's hard enough that they allow little babies to give birth 1269 01:13:29,860 --> 01:13:34,860 to babies with no professional help whatsoever. 1270 01:13:35,270 --> 01:13:37,860 We don't have all the answers, 1271 01:13:37,860 --> 01:13:40,250 but we are doing all we can. 1272 01:13:40,250 --> 01:13:41,700 - No! 1273 01:13:41,700 --> 01:13:44,120 We need to do more. 1274 01:13:44,120 --> 01:13:46,430 We can't keep losing these women. 1275 01:13:46,430 --> 01:13:47,780 I mean there has to be way! 1276 01:13:50,560 --> 01:13:55,382 If they can't come to us, we will go to them. 1277 01:13:55,382 --> 01:13:57,080 - [News Anchor] Yesterday Honorable Musa received 1278 01:13:57,080 --> 01:13:59,910 an award of excellence from the Speaker of the House 1279 01:13:59,910 --> 01:14:01,243 for his contribution. 1280 01:14:02,270 --> 01:14:06,110 Honorable Musa said he was very elated to receive the award, 1281 01:14:06,110 --> 01:14:06,943 and that he will-- 1282 01:14:06,943 --> 01:14:08,553 - He's one of the few I like. 1283 01:14:11,517 --> 01:14:12,350 - Okay. 1284 01:14:15,250 --> 01:14:18,840 - Some of the doctors have indicated their interest. 1285 01:14:18,840 --> 01:14:21,530 - Oh, that's wonderful, that's great. 1286 01:14:21,530 --> 01:14:24,870 So that means we can start with the nearest village. 1287 01:14:24,870 --> 01:14:25,703 - That's right. 1288 01:14:26,620 --> 01:14:28,537 - Do you want some tea? 1289 01:14:29,377 --> 01:14:31,476 - Oh no, I'm just fine, thank you. 1290 01:14:31,476 --> 01:14:33,124 - Okay. 1291 01:14:33,124 --> 01:14:36,707 (bustling city atmosphere) 1292 01:14:42,723 --> 01:14:45,287 - So if you know anybody that has VVF, 1293 01:14:45,287 --> 01:14:49,489 anybody that has fistula, our bus is set up in that place, 1294 01:14:49,489 --> 01:14:52,733 tell the person to come so we can repair them. 1295 01:14:52,733 --> 01:14:56,066 (upbeat rhythmic music) 1296 01:15:15,625 --> 01:15:19,134 (yells in a foreign language) 1297 01:15:19,134 --> 01:15:20,884 - [Group] Go, go, go! 1298 01:15:42,360 --> 01:15:43,591 - What is going on, Ayesha? 1299 01:15:43,591 --> 01:15:46,341 - It's the girl I told you about. 1300 01:15:47,545 --> 01:15:48,378 - Why are they stoning her? 1301 01:15:48,378 --> 01:15:50,199 I don't understand. - I don't know. 1302 01:15:50,199 --> 01:15:51,970 Please do something! 1303 01:15:51,970 --> 01:15:53,263 - Matron! 1304 01:15:53,263 --> 01:15:54,435 Did you see what is going on? 1305 01:15:54,435 --> 01:15:55,271 - Yes, I've seen it all. 1306 01:15:55,271 --> 01:15:57,077 - They can't just stone her like that, are they crazy? 1307 01:15:57,077 --> 01:15:59,637 - [Matron] Come on, come on, come here, come back! 1308 01:15:59,637 --> 01:16:01,162 Doctor Zara, come back. 1309 01:16:01,162 --> 01:16:02,401 No, no, no, let's go, let's go. 1310 01:16:02,401 --> 01:16:03,240 Not now. 1311 01:16:03,240 --> 01:16:04,316 Get into the car. 1312 01:16:04,316 --> 01:16:05,149 - They can't just do that. 1313 01:16:05,149 --> 01:16:08,270 - [Matron] Listen, just get into the car now, please! 1314 01:16:08,270 --> 01:16:09,103 Please! 1315 01:16:11,030 --> 01:16:11,880 - Take your food. 1316 01:16:13,790 --> 01:16:16,600 What more do you want me to do for you, huh? 1317 01:16:16,600 --> 01:16:18,650 Tell me, what do you want? 1318 01:16:18,650 --> 01:16:20,673 - I want my childhood back. 1319 01:16:21,730 --> 01:16:23,363 I want to be a girl again, 1320 01:16:24,770 --> 01:16:29,380 playing in my father's compound with the other children. 1321 01:16:29,380 --> 01:16:30,213 Laughing, 1322 01:16:31,560 --> 01:16:32,413 clapping, 1323 01:16:33,490 --> 01:16:34,963 staying by my mother, 1324 01:16:36,730 --> 01:16:38,233 helping out in the kitchen, 1325 01:16:40,339 --> 01:16:43,183 listening to folklore under the moon. 1326 01:16:48,347 --> 01:16:49,783 Can you get that for me? 1327 01:16:51,135 --> 01:16:51,968 Can you? 1328 01:16:53,500 --> 01:16:54,333 - Halima. 1329 01:16:57,540 --> 01:17:00,483 - Did you hear what happened to me in the market? 1330 01:17:00,483 --> 01:17:04,072 - Yes, I heard what happened to you in the market, Halima, 1331 01:17:04,072 --> 01:17:05,943 but you have to be strong. 1332 01:17:07,360 --> 01:17:08,533 Stop crying. 1333 01:17:08,533 --> 01:17:11,403 Have to believe things will work out themselves somehow. 1334 01:17:18,400 --> 01:17:20,153 - Yes, what do you want? 1335 01:17:21,830 --> 01:17:24,347 - Please, what is wrong with her? 1336 01:17:24,347 --> 01:17:26,288 - What's your problem in what is wrong with her? 1337 01:17:26,288 --> 01:17:28,650 Are you her for gossip or you want to hear it from my mouth? 1338 01:17:28,650 --> 01:17:29,990 - I'm only here to help. 1339 01:17:29,990 --> 01:17:31,760 - Which help, which help? 1340 01:17:31,760 --> 01:17:34,160 Didn't you hear what happened to her at the village? 1341 01:17:34,160 --> 01:17:35,560 - I saw what happened today. 1342 01:17:41,230 --> 01:17:43,033 I came with the medical team. 1343 01:17:49,630 --> 01:17:51,810 - We went to the hospital. 1344 01:17:51,810 --> 01:17:54,433 They could not help, so leave us alone. 1345 01:17:55,580 --> 01:17:57,080 - Please don't talk like that. 1346 01:17:58,322 --> 01:18:01,110 I understand what you are going through. 1347 01:18:01,110 --> 01:18:03,140 I went through the same thing too, 1348 01:18:03,140 --> 01:18:05,363 but now I'm dry. 1349 01:18:07,350 --> 01:18:10,044 - Just go, go, I don't want to go anywhere. 1350 01:18:10,044 --> 01:18:11,468 Go, go! 1351 01:18:11,468 --> 01:18:13,710 (sobbing) 1352 01:18:13,710 --> 01:18:14,543 Go! 1353 01:18:14,543 --> 01:18:15,960 - Halima, Halima. 1354 01:18:16,996 --> 01:18:20,120 - I know you know where she is. 1355 01:18:20,120 --> 01:18:23,223 You don't know the guilt I carried with me all these years. 1356 01:18:25,330 --> 01:18:27,933 I just want to know that she is happy, 1357 01:18:29,026 --> 01:18:32,000 or if she's in a good home, or? 1358 01:18:32,000 --> 01:18:34,050 Just anything. 1359 01:18:34,050 --> 01:18:38,561 I beg you, tell me something, just tell me just anything. 1360 01:18:38,561 --> 01:18:39,700 I beg you. 1361 01:18:39,700 --> 01:18:42,193 - She was struck with stroke a few years back, 1362 01:18:43,030 --> 01:18:44,690 but she's recovering. 1363 01:18:44,690 --> 01:18:47,203 She speaks like, once in a while. 1364 01:18:48,049 --> 01:18:49,670 - Who are you? 1365 01:18:49,670 --> 01:18:53,490 - My name is Rita and I'm her daughter. 1366 01:18:53,490 --> 01:18:56,240 - Well, I just want to know what she did with my child. 1367 01:18:59,630 --> 01:19:01,710 - She told me about her. 1368 01:19:01,710 --> 01:19:04,690 She said it was the biggest regrets of her life. 1369 01:19:04,690 --> 01:19:06,330 - I don't care about that. 1370 01:19:06,330 --> 01:19:09,810 I'm sorry your mother was such a horrible person. 1371 01:19:09,810 --> 01:19:11,920 All I need to know is to find my baby. 1372 01:19:11,920 --> 01:19:13,140 I want to know where my child is. 1373 01:19:13,140 --> 01:19:14,440 That's all I want to know. 1374 01:19:17,967 --> 01:19:19,517 - Um. 1375 01:19:19,517 --> 01:19:23,130 There's a woman in Kuma village, her name is Hadiza, 1376 01:19:23,130 --> 01:19:25,760 but I don't know if she still lives there. 1377 01:19:25,760 --> 01:19:29,503 - Just give me any information, anything, I can find her. 1378 01:19:29,503 --> 01:19:31,150 - I don't know much. 1379 01:19:31,150 --> 01:19:35,290 I'm so sorry, but be rest assured, if I find something, 1380 01:19:35,290 --> 01:19:38,442 I'll definitely contact you. 1381 01:19:38,442 --> 01:19:41,359 (mysterious music) 1382 01:20:38,010 --> 01:20:38,843 - Hello? 1383 01:20:46,170 --> 01:20:47,003 Hello? 1384 01:20:48,494 --> 01:20:51,230 (clapping) 1385 01:20:51,230 --> 01:20:52,063 Hello? 1386 01:20:58,280 --> 01:20:59,510 Good afternoon. 1387 01:20:59,510 --> 01:21:00,927 - Good afternoon. 1388 01:21:03,240 --> 01:21:05,333 - Please sir, we are looking for Hadiza. 1389 01:21:06,520 --> 01:21:07,940 - Is everything all right? 1390 01:21:07,940 --> 01:21:11,330 - Yes, no problem, but is this her house? 1391 01:21:11,330 --> 01:21:12,500 - Yes, this is her house. 1392 01:21:12,500 --> 01:21:15,793 I'm her husband but she has gone to the market. 1393 01:21:17,380 --> 01:21:18,690 Is anything the matter, please? 1394 01:21:18,690 --> 01:21:21,935 - No, no, no, no, we are just very close friends of hers 1395 01:21:21,935 --> 01:21:23,185 and we came to visit her. 1396 01:21:23,185 --> 01:21:24,840 - Oh. 1397 01:21:24,840 --> 01:21:28,283 You are welcome, yes, yes, just a minute. 1398 01:21:32,368 --> 01:21:34,466 Come and have a sit. 1399 01:21:34,466 --> 01:21:35,845 Come and sit here and wait for her. 1400 01:21:35,845 --> 01:21:36,678 - Okay. 1401 01:21:36,678 --> 01:21:37,545 - (mumbles) as well. 1402 01:21:37,545 --> 01:21:38,878 You are welcome. 1403 01:21:46,110 --> 01:21:48,133 Welcome, welcome, welcome. 1404 01:21:59,850 --> 01:22:01,090 - I don't know what you're talking about. 1405 01:22:01,090 --> 01:22:02,420 She's my daughter! 1406 01:22:02,420 --> 01:22:05,280 - She is mine, she was stolen from me. 1407 01:22:05,280 --> 01:22:06,900 - Get out, get out! 1408 01:22:06,900 --> 01:22:10,490 - Listen Hadiza, this is the mother. 1409 01:22:10,490 --> 01:22:12,720 - You have no right to come in here. 1410 01:22:12,720 --> 01:22:16,460 - Please, I beg you, I don't want to lose her a second time. 1411 01:22:16,460 --> 01:22:17,630 I just need to see her face. 1412 01:22:17,630 --> 01:22:19,720 I just want to make sure that she's fine. 1413 01:22:19,720 --> 01:22:20,938 That's all I ask, please. 1414 01:22:20,938 --> 01:22:22,510 - Leave my house before I do something drastic. 1415 01:22:22,510 --> 01:22:23,343 Leave! 1416 01:22:23,343 --> 01:22:25,220 - I know it's difficult for you, but please-- 1417 01:22:25,220 --> 01:22:26,632 - Leave my house! 1418 01:22:26,632 --> 01:22:30,715 (Zara stammers incomprehensibly) 1419 01:22:36,700 --> 01:22:37,533 Get out! 1420 01:22:37,533 --> 01:22:38,430 Get out! 1421 01:22:38,430 --> 01:22:39,263 - Get up! 1422 01:22:40,806 --> 01:22:42,553 Now leave the house. 1423 01:22:44,220 --> 01:22:45,860 Leave the house. 1424 01:22:45,860 --> 01:22:47,410 I said leave my house! 1425 01:22:47,410 --> 01:22:49,460 - I'm on my way to the hospital, my dear. 1426 01:22:50,940 --> 01:22:53,113 That doctor, their operation, 1427 01:22:53,979 --> 01:22:54,812 they were operating women, 1428 01:22:54,812 --> 01:22:57,380 operating women, operating women, 1429 01:22:57,380 --> 01:22:59,493 that's what they've been saying, 1430 01:22:59,493 --> 01:23:01,560 Even at the village square, she said that, 1431 01:23:01,560 --> 01:23:03,280 she was telling them, I heard. 1432 01:23:03,280 --> 01:23:04,400 She was telling them, 1433 01:23:04,400 --> 01:23:06,730 you know me I don't say what I don't see. 1434 01:23:06,730 --> 01:23:09,397 She was telling them that operation, hospital, 1435 01:23:10,283 --> 01:23:13,885 pregnant hospital, everything hospital. 1436 01:23:13,885 --> 01:23:15,968 (scoffs) 1437 01:23:17,679 --> 01:23:20,262 (men shouting) 1438 01:23:22,258 --> 01:23:25,091 (women screaming) 1439 01:23:42,649 --> 01:23:43,649 - Oh my god. 1440 01:23:45,459 --> 01:23:46,980 - The whole thing is burned down! 1441 01:23:46,980 --> 01:23:49,985 - Who could have been responsible for this? 1442 01:23:49,985 --> 01:23:50,818 - I don't know! 1443 01:23:50,818 --> 01:23:53,663 - I told you, Dr. Zara, these people can be crazy. 1444 01:24:00,020 --> 01:24:00,853 Come on, come on, come on. 1445 01:24:00,853 --> 01:24:01,686 Doctor Zara. 1446 01:24:03,852 --> 01:24:04,880 - Where are all the people? 1447 01:24:04,880 --> 01:24:09,061 - We have to look for them, we have to look for all of them. 1448 01:24:09,061 --> 01:24:10,661 It's okay, it's okay, it's okay. 1449 01:24:12,690 --> 01:24:15,970 - Why is our children burning our hospital down? 1450 01:24:15,970 --> 01:24:17,703 The only community hospital, 1451 01:24:18,860 --> 01:24:21,310 and these people have come to help us. 1452 01:24:21,310 --> 01:24:22,900 Our children are doing it. 1453 01:24:22,900 --> 01:24:24,077 Do you know of it? 1454 01:24:24,077 --> 01:24:25,200 - [Group] It is not us. 1455 01:24:25,200 --> 01:24:29,180 - Why is it not you, is your children who are doing it. 1456 01:24:29,180 --> 01:24:31,733 You better go and warn them. 1457 01:24:31,733 --> 01:24:33,083 This will not happen again. 1458 01:24:44,252 --> 01:24:45,085 - Who's next? 1459 01:24:45,085 --> 01:24:45,918 - Oh, she's next, she's ready now. 1460 01:24:45,918 --> 01:24:47,857 - Oh, how are we doing? 1461 01:24:49,780 --> 01:24:54,280 (patients chattering over each other) 1462 01:25:03,503 --> 01:25:06,150 (coughing) 1463 01:25:06,150 --> 01:25:08,860 - I learnt that some new doctors came into the village. 1464 01:25:08,860 --> 01:25:10,510 - Are you sure they can help her? 1465 01:25:11,430 --> 01:25:13,380 You said the other doctor rejected her. 1466 01:25:15,020 --> 01:25:17,840 - They rejected her, but this one is different, 1467 01:25:17,840 --> 01:25:20,570 because Amina, Rabu's daughter just got well. 1468 01:25:20,570 --> 01:25:23,297 My prayer now is that Halima agrees to go with me. 1469 01:25:23,297 --> 01:25:25,954 - Let's go and talk to her, let's go. 1470 01:25:25,954 --> 01:25:28,297 (coughing) 1471 01:25:28,297 --> 01:25:29,593 Halima! 1472 01:25:29,593 --> 01:25:31,986 Halima, Halima, Halima! 1473 01:25:31,986 --> 01:25:33,870 - Halima! 1474 01:25:33,870 --> 01:25:37,124 - Please, go and get the doctor! 1475 01:25:37,124 --> 01:25:38,535 Please, please. 1476 01:25:38,535 --> 01:25:43,535 Oh my god, Halima. 1477 01:25:43,985 --> 01:25:44,818 - Help! 1478 01:25:46,912 --> 01:25:48,185 Help, help! 1479 01:25:48,185 --> 01:25:51,154 Hospital, hospital please, help Halima! 1480 01:25:51,154 --> 01:25:52,124 Halima, please! 1481 01:25:52,124 --> 01:25:54,461 Help, help, please, help! 1482 01:25:54,461 --> 01:25:55,878 - Halima, Halima! 1483 01:26:00,547 --> 01:26:01,380 Please. 1484 01:26:02,431 --> 01:26:05,180 - Pick her up, pick her up right how. 1485 01:26:05,180 --> 01:26:06,013 - Halima! 1486 01:26:18,394 --> 01:26:20,523 - Move it, move it! 1487 01:26:20,523 --> 01:26:22,129 Wait there, move it! 1488 01:26:22,129 --> 01:26:24,629 (tense music) 1489 01:26:59,537 --> 01:27:02,973 - I'm sorry for abandoning you when you needed me most. 1490 01:27:05,820 --> 01:27:07,170 - I'm not your real mother. 1491 01:27:08,560 --> 01:27:11,140 I needed a child so badly, 1492 01:27:11,140 --> 01:27:14,983 so when my friend told me she could help, I had to do it. 1493 01:27:19,760 --> 01:27:20,883 She's your mother. 1494 01:27:23,240 --> 01:27:24,870 I just met her. 1495 01:27:24,870 --> 01:27:28,053 She came all the way to look for you. 1496 01:27:34,270 --> 01:27:35,273 - I'm so sorry. 1497 01:27:38,370 --> 01:27:40,153 I didn't know you were still alive. 1498 01:27:41,710 --> 01:27:43,710 I thought you were dead. 1499 01:27:45,180 --> 01:27:46,861 But I'll do everything in my power 1500 01:27:46,861 --> 01:27:49,718 to make sure you are okay, okay? 1501 01:27:49,718 --> 01:27:53,218 Everything to make sure that you are well. 1502 01:28:00,276 --> 01:28:01,109 - Mama. 1503 01:28:02,496 --> 01:28:03,329 - No! 1504 01:28:04,833 --> 01:28:06,990 Hold on, let me check your pulse. 1505 01:28:06,990 --> 01:28:08,407 Oh my god, nurse! 1506 01:28:09,416 --> 01:28:10,969 Nurse! 1507 01:28:10,969 --> 01:28:13,347 Oh my god, don't die! 1508 01:28:13,347 --> 01:28:14,427 No! 1509 01:28:14,427 --> 01:28:16,510 - Halima, no, Halima, no! 1510 01:28:20,836 --> 01:28:23,419 (loud sobbing) 1511 01:28:26,765 --> 01:28:29,348 (somber music) 1512 01:28:54,779 --> 01:28:56,946 (sobbing) 1513 01:29:01,433 --> 01:29:02,266 - Oh god! 1514 01:29:15,108 --> 01:29:16,787 (screaming) 1515 01:29:16,787 --> 01:29:17,745 - Make her suffer! 1516 01:29:17,745 --> 01:29:18,662 Silly girl! 1517 01:29:34,550 --> 01:29:35,975 - Why are they marrying them off? 1518 01:29:35,975 --> 01:29:36,808 That's the reason. 1519 01:29:36,808 --> 01:29:38,400 Marry them off, they get pregnant, and then at the end 1520 01:29:38,400 --> 01:29:40,730 of the day, you throw them away like piece of trash. 1521 01:29:40,730 --> 01:29:43,220 This needs to stop, and that's the only thing I want. 1522 01:29:43,220 --> 01:29:46,470 The government has to do something, everyone has to stand up 1523 01:29:46,470 --> 01:29:48,640 to make sure that we restore our healthcare system. 1524 01:29:48,640 --> 01:29:49,580 That is all I ask for. 1525 01:29:49,580 --> 01:29:51,830 Restore our healthcare system. 1526 01:29:51,830 --> 01:29:52,663 - Well said. 1527 01:29:52,663 --> 01:29:53,496 We do wish you well. 1528 01:29:54,780 --> 01:29:56,433 In case you want to reach out to Doctor Zara 1529 01:29:56,433 --> 01:29:58,307 to support this cause, you can send your money... 1530 01:29:58,307 --> 01:30:03,176 - Who is this women who is talking all over the place? 1531 01:30:03,176 --> 01:30:06,289 - Um, I don't, I don't know. 1532 01:30:06,289 --> 01:30:11,289 - You don't know? (laughs) 1533 01:30:11,300 --> 01:30:14,783 You were sent a letter and you did nothing about it? 1534 01:30:16,804 --> 01:30:20,457 - I'm sorry your lordship, we had other pressing issues. 1535 01:30:22,513 --> 01:30:25,740 - What issue could be more pressing than this lunatic doctor 1536 01:30:25,740 --> 01:30:28,863 who will do anything to paint this country bad. 1537 01:30:30,730 --> 01:30:34,340 I want you to get to her and let her know 1538 01:30:34,340 --> 01:30:38,263 that the assembly is interested in this case, whether the 1539 01:30:38,263 --> 01:30:39,513 bill is passed or not, 1540 01:30:41,660 --> 01:30:43,480 convince her that we care. 1541 01:30:45,620 --> 01:30:48,360 - We are have tried as much as we can to really help, 1542 01:30:48,360 --> 01:30:50,150 but without enough government support there is so 1543 01:30:50,150 --> 01:30:51,593 little we can do. 1544 01:30:51,593 --> 01:30:54,982 - Ah. (laughs) 1545 01:30:54,982 --> 01:30:56,057 She's everywhere! 1546 01:30:56,057 --> 01:30:57,890 Now get on it! 1547 01:30:57,890 --> 01:30:59,233 - All right, your excellency. 1548 01:31:01,496 --> 01:31:03,496 (sighs) 1549 01:31:04,340 --> 01:31:06,557 - Yes come to our mother hospital. 1550 01:31:06,557 --> 01:31:07,390 Just come down. 1551 01:31:11,030 --> 01:31:13,020 Where are you people from? 1552 01:31:16,235 --> 01:31:17,068 Wait. 1553 01:31:31,492 --> 01:31:32,325 Alex! 1554 01:31:33,492 --> 01:31:34,325 Oh my god. 1555 01:31:36,950 --> 01:31:38,010 What are you doing here? 1556 01:31:38,010 --> 01:31:40,717 - I thought someone show come and keep an eye on you. 1557 01:31:40,717 --> 01:31:43,110 - I'm sorry for running off on you like that. 1558 01:31:43,110 --> 01:31:46,302 - You better not do it again. 1559 01:31:46,302 --> 01:31:48,427 - Thank you so much for coming. 1560 01:31:48,427 --> 01:31:49,622 Thank you. 1561 01:31:49,622 --> 01:31:52,205 (gentle music) 1562 01:31:57,296 --> 01:31:59,713 - [Announcer] Mister speaker! 1563 01:32:08,450 --> 01:32:09,543 - Please sit down. 1564 01:32:19,250 --> 01:32:20,300 Honorable colleagues, 1565 01:32:21,660 --> 01:32:23,410 distinguished ladies and gentlemen, 1566 01:32:27,820 --> 01:32:29,520 before we go on, I'd like to 1567 01:32:31,670 --> 01:32:32,610 say that I, 1568 01:32:35,390 --> 01:32:38,420 I have decided to take over the chairmanship 1569 01:32:38,420 --> 01:32:43,420 of this committee on this issue, because of the gravity, 1570 01:32:46,194 --> 01:32:49,063 and the seriousness that it deserves. 1571 01:32:51,670 --> 01:32:55,390 The whole country is asking questions 1572 01:32:57,280 --> 01:33:00,513 and we must have the answer to give them. 1573 01:33:01,560 --> 01:33:03,153 Dr. Zara Robbins, 1574 01:33:04,090 --> 01:33:05,323 the floor is yours. 1575 01:33:24,610 --> 01:33:27,300 - Thank you, honorable speaker, 1576 01:33:27,300 --> 01:33:29,473 for this wonderful opportunity. 1577 01:33:32,270 --> 01:33:37,270 I'm standing in front of you today, not just because 1578 01:33:38,730 --> 01:33:43,730 I'm a woman, but first, I am a human being, and as such 1579 01:33:44,740 --> 01:33:48,323 my fundamental human rights needs to be protected. 1580 01:33:49,920 --> 01:33:53,820 The African woman can be described as the most 1581 01:33:53,820 --> 01:33:57,140 endangered species of our world. 1582 01:33:57,140 --> 01:34:02,140 Culture conditions her from cradle to a life of submission 1583 01:34:02,150 --> 01:34:06,850 and subservience against her natural inclination for 1584 01:34:06,850 --> 01:34:09,930 freedom and self-determination. 1585 01:34:09,930 --> 01:34:14,173 She is at birth a child to be loved and cared for, 1586 01:34:15,120 --> 01:34:19,470 but as she gains age and consciousness of her environment, 1587 01:34:19,470 --> 01:34:24,265 archaic traditions discard and discount her social value 1588 01:34:24,265 --> 01:34:27,860 to a mere object to be used and given away 1589 01:34:27,860 --> 01:34:30,403 to almost anything to almost anybody! 1590 01:34:31,630 --> 01:34:35,213 That I am alive today is a miracle. 1591 01:34:41,580 --> 01:34:43,793 You all might wonder what is my story? 1592 01:34:49,290 --> 01:34:54,290 My daughter Halima died in my arms few days ago 1593 01:34:55,190 --> 01:34:56,163 from fistula. 1594 01:34:58,530 --> 01:35:01,593 She was rushed to the hospital almost in a state of coma, 1595 01:35:03,550 --> 01:35:06,637 the fistula has resulted in giving her septicemia 1596 01:35:09,024 --> 01:35:09,924 and then she died. 1597 01:35:11,540 --> 01:35:15,673 I'm a medical doctor, I have saved so many lives, 1598 01:35:17,650 --> 01:35:20,183 but the one person that I cared about, 1599 01:35:22,890 --> 01:35:25,130 the one person that I just wanted for one day 1600 01:35:25,130 --> 01:35:28,833 to tell her how much I loved her. 1601 01:35:30,160 --> 01:35:32,660 The one person I could have given everything for 1602 01:35:33,970 --> 01:35:35,623 or could have done anything for, 1603 01:35:36,500 --> 01:35:38,123 ended up dying in my arms. 1604 01:35:44,790 --> 01:35:45,690 And you know what? 1605 01:35:47,410 --> 01:35:52,030 I am not different from all these women who go through 1606 01:35:52,030 --> 01:35:54,603 this trauma every day. 1607 01:35:57,610 --> 01:35:58,803 I am just lucky. 1608 01:35:59,862 --> 01:36:01,510 (fire raging) 1609 01:36:01,510 --> 01:36:05,340 My parents died or rather they where killed by the rebels 1610 01:36:05,340 --> 01:36:07,840 who invaded our village and killed everyone. 1611 01:36:07,840 --> 01:36:08,690 I escaped 1612 01:36:12,070 --> 01:36:13,613 and ran to my aunty's house, 1613 01:36:15,830 --> 01:36:17,430 but she wasn't please to see me. 1614 01:36:18,990 --> 01:36:19,830 - Silly girl! 1615 01:36:21,180 --> 01:36:22,947 Why are you just coming back, eh? 1616 01:36:24,600 --> 01:36:25,740 Can't you talk? 1617 01:36:25,740 --> 01:36:29,697 It now takes you forever to bring water from the backyard. 1618 01:36:29,697 --> 01:36:34,480 - [Zara] Her husband was nice to me at first, 1619 01:36:34,480 --> 01:36:38,751 showered me with gifts, looked at me in awkward ways 1620 01:36:38,751 --> 01:36:42,010 that I did not understand until eventually. 1621 01:36:42,010 --> 01:36:42,929 (screaming) 1622 01:36:42,929 --> 01:36:43,846 Uncle stop! 1623 01:36:45,186 --> 01:36:46,103 No, no, no! 1624 01:36:47,732 --> 01:36:48,649 No, no, no! 1625 01:36:50,268 --> 01:36:51,279 Uncle stop! 1626 01:36:51,279 --> 01:36:53,544 (screams) 1627 01:36:53,544 --> 01:36:55,294 - Why are you crying? 1628 01:36:56,965 --> 01:36:59,060 - Uncle raped me. 1629 01:36:59,060 --> 01:37:00,460 - Uncle raped you? 1630 01:37:00,460 --> 01:37:02,567 What are you talking about? 1631 01:37:03,413 --> 01:37:04,580 Hear this, evil child. 1632 01:37:04,580 --> 01:37:06,923 After you have killed your parents, now you want 1633 01:37:06,923 --> 01:37:08,550 to destroy my home? 1634 01:37:08,550 --> 01:37:09,383 God forbid! 1635 01:37:10,980 --> 01:37:12,573 Look at your mouth, rape? 1636 01:37:13,420 --> 01:37:16,210 How do you know what rape is? 1637 01:37:16,210 --> 01:37:18,894 Huh, Zara you cannot live in this house with me any longer. 1638 01:37:18,894 --> 01:37:20,370 (Zara stammers) 1639 01:37:20,370 --> 01:37:22,830 I said go, go, you must go! 1640 01:37:22,830 --> 01:37:24,780 - [Zara] My aunty had to chase me away. 1641 01:37:26,260 --> 01:37:27,973 I found myself on the streets. 1642 01:37:29,570 --> 01:37:30,403 I was hawking 1643 01:37:31,960 --> 01:37:33,770 and then two men kidnapped me 1644 01:37:36,610 --> 01:37:38,893 and took me to a woman called Madam Kojo. 1645 01:37:40,500 --> 01:37:43,550 Madam Kojo, who felt she owned me and could do anything 1646 01:37:43,550 --> 01:37:47,363 with me, forced me into prostitution. 1647 01:37:49,380 --> 01:37:53,190 And it was at that point that I realized that 1648 01:37:53,190 --> 01:37:54,790 I was carrying my uncle's child. 1649 01:37:57,970 --> 01:38:00,720 But Madam Kojo had her plans. 1650 01:38:00,720 --> 01:38:02,350 She had other plans. 1651 01:38:02,350 --> 01:38:04,623 She lied to me that my baby died. 1652 01:38:04,623 --> 01:38:05,456 My baby! 1653 01:38:08,383 --> 01:38:11,541 And then I developed fistula. 1654 01:38:11,541 --> 01:38:12,374 - What ? 1655 01:38:17,790 --> 01:38:18,623 - Not again. 1656 01:38:18,623 --> 01:38:19,456 - What is it? 1657 01:38:19,456 --> 01:38:21,679 Must you do this every day? 1658 01:38:21,679 --> 01:38:23,258 - How can you do this kind of a thing? 1659 01:38:23,258 --> 01:38:24,673 Look at my body. 1660 01:38:24,673 --> 01:38:26,950 I can't take this anymore. 1661 01:38:26,950 --> 01:38:28,850 - Off to the witch who did this house. 1662 01:38:33,799 --> 01:38:34,632 Go on! 1663 01:38:36,830 --> 01:38:39,580 - Which kind of evil child is this? 1664 01:38:39,580 --> 01:38:41,563 From one problem to the other. 1665 01:38:42,960 --> 01:38:44,193 Now you are born, 1666 01:38:45,690 --> 01:38:50,313 now your pikin' die, now you still do piss for house, 1667 01:38:51,730 --> 01:38:52,813 witchcraft. 1668 01:38:54,260 --> 01:38:57,238 Please return to wherever they brought you from. 1669 01:38:57,238 --> 01:39:00,050 This witchcraft is not good for my business. 1670 01:39:00,050 --> 01:39:02,549 Return, I beg leave my house. 1671 01:39:02,549 --> 01:39:04,120 Leave my house now! 1672 01:39:04,120 --> 01:39:05,550 The whole house is smelling. 1673 01:39:05,550 --> 01:39:08,363 - I felt so ashamed that I meant nothing. 1674 01:39:10,120 --> 01:39:13,633 I believed everything my aunty told me, that I was evil, 1675 01:39:15,200 --> 01:39:20,200 that I killed my parents, that I allowed my uncle rape me, 1676 01:39:21,683 --> 01:39:24,313 that everything happened to me that I deserved, 1677 01:39:25,360 --> 01:39:27,147 that I'm such a horrible person. 1678 01:39:29,830 --> 01:39:30,730 But you know what? 1679 01:39:31,950 --> 01:39:36,250 The death of my daughter made me realize that no! 1680 01:39:36,250 --> 01:39:37,083 I don't. 1681 01:39:38,060 --> 01:39:39,033 I don't deserve it, 1682 01:39:40,550 --> 01:39:44,890 I deserve to be happy, I deserve to be protected. 1683 01:39:44,890 --> 01:39:46,493 I deserved to be loved. 1684 01:39:48,495 --> 01:39:50,350 Just that I wish I could show the love 1685 01:39:50,350 --> 01:39:52,860 that I got from my adopted mother to my daughter, 1686 01:39:52,860 --> 01:39:56,510 who found me on the streets repaired me of fistula 1687 01:39:56,510 --> 01:39:58,563 and then changed my life. 1688 01:40:01,070 --> 01:40:03,400 Today I stand before you 1689 01:40:04,470 --> 01:40:05,740 to speak for the rights 1690 01:40:05,740 --> 01:40:08,273 and welfare of the daughters of Africa, 1691 01:40:09,410 --> 01:40:11,520 to speak against their abuse and reduction 1692 01:40:12,550 --> 01:40:14,370 to the status of material gifts. 1693 01:40:14,370 --> 01:40:15,893 Especially at a tender age. 1694 01:40:17,070 --> 01:40:20,920 The practice of underaged marriage, female circumcision, 1695 01:40:20,920 --> 01:40:23,590 lack of access to medical care and education 1696 01:40:23,590 --> 01:40:25,673 is a gross abuse of womanhood. 1697 01:40:27,380 --> 01:40:32,380 I insist that the final and most decisive anti-fistula 1698 01:40:32,530 --> 01:40:35,070 effort should commence now. 1699 01:40:35,070 --> 01:40:39,040 Time has come for us to put a stop to this menace. 1700 01:40:39,040 --> 01:40:41,650 Time has come for us to save ourselves 1701 01:40:41,650 --> 01:40:44,560 from this crippling scourge. 1702 01:40:44,560 --> 01:40:47,843 We need to enforce the Child Right Act. 1703 01:40:48,816 --> 01:40:51,060 We need to pass the national health bill, 1704 01:40:51,060 --> 01:40:54,900 create an agency for the eradication of Fistula 1705 01:40:54,900 --> 01:40:59,283 in order to achieve our millennium developmental goals. 1706 01:41:01,550 --> 01:41:02,493 And in all, 1707 01:41:05,040 --> 01:41:07,423 I beg you, please, 1708 01:41:08,530 --> 01:41:10,913 let these young girls have their childhood, 1709 01:41:13,300 --> 01:41:15,730 because when it is taken away from them, 1710 01:41:15,730 --> 01:41:17,500 you can never get it back. 1711 01:41:23,880 --> 01:41:25,130 And in all of this today. 1712 01:41:26,960 --> 01:41:29,133 I confront my abuser, 1713 01:41:30,640 --> 01:41:33,003 who amazingly is one of you. 1714 01:41:37,000 --> 01:41:39,202 Honorable Musa Abudullahi. 1715 01:41:39,202 --> 01:41:40,579 (audience gasps) 1716 01:41:40,579 --> 01:41:42,760 I ask the honorable assembly not only to grant me 1717 01:41:42,760 --> 01:41:46,250 the wishes of these women, but also bring to judgment 1718 01:41:46,250 --> 01:41:49,100 to Honorable Musa for the crime he committed against 1719 01:41:49,100 --> 01:41:52,283 a young girl many years ago. 1720 01:41:53,482 --> 01:41:55,732 (clapping) 1721 01:42:02,161 --> 01:42:03,411 - Order! Order! 1722 01:42:05,786 --> 01:42:08,369 (upbeat music) 1723 01:42:46,588 --> 01:42:49,200 - It's with pleasure that we unveil this center 1724 01:42:49,200 --> 01:42:52,780 dedicated to Halima, the little girl that died of fistula. 1725 01:42:52,780 --> 01:42:54,540 May God rest her soul. 1726 01:42:54,540 --> 01:42:57,110 I hereby declare the official laying foundation 1727 01:42:57,110 --> 01:43:01,872 of Halima Fistula Hospital and School of Education open. 1728 01:43:01,872 --> 01:43:04,122 (applause) 1729 01:43:05,430 --> 01:43:06,263 - Thank you so much. 1730 01:43:06,263 --> 01:43:08,096 - Thank you very much. 1731 01:43:21,882 --> 01:43:24,799 (children playing) 1732 01:44:04,753 --> 01:44:08,086 (upbeat rhythmic music) 1733 01:45:08,477 --> 01:45:12,060 (energetic rhythmic music) 1734 01:45:27,402 --> 01:45:29,985 (somber music) 1735 01:46:16,566 --> 01:46:19,899 (upbeat rhythmic music)