Desert Flower (2009)

While my father and the rest of the family were still sleeping, my mother woke me and said, “Go now.” I looked around for something to grab, something to take, but there was nothing, no bottle of water, no jar of milk, no basket of food. So, barefoot, and wearing only a scarf draped around me, I ran off into the black desert night.

(...)

From then on, I dreaded the ritual that I would pass through on the way to womanhood. I tried to put the horror of it out of my mind, and as time passed, so did my memory of the agony I had witnessed on my sister’s face. Finally, I foolishly convinced myself that I wanted to become a woman, too, and join my older sisters.

(...)

I love my mother, my family, and I love Africa.

Este é um filme baseado na vida de Waris Dirie, uma rapariga somali excisada aos 5 anos, que, após ter sido vendida para casar aos 13 anos, fugiu para Londres. Enquanto trabalhava como empregada de limpeza, foi descoberta por um fotógrafo e acabou por se tornar numa supermodelo e na porta-voz da ONU contra a excisão feminina.
Uma lição de vida.