A DOCUMENTARY FILM ABOUT A WOMAN WHO WANTS TO WIN THE BATTLE FOR HER RIGHTS

The main character of the film is 25-year-old Nasrin from Kurdistan. While her family was fleeing to Europe, Nasrin was forced to marry a human trafficker notably older than her age. She was then 13.

Nasrin’s schooling is interrupted and she gives birth to her first child as a 15-year-old. Later on, the couple arrives in Finland with false identities so that Nasrin’s husband wouldn’t be charged for child trafficking. In Finland, Nasrin gives birth to another two daughters. She is then only 20 years old.

In Finland, Nasrin takes a Finnish language course and thus is able to go to school for the first time since marriage. She gets inspired to learn more, and becomes more independent and emancipated through her teacher. Nasrin learns that men and women are equal and that a wife is not always obliged to obey her husband. When Nasrin is 21 years old, her husband tries to force her into getting a fourth child. Then Nasrin realizes she doesn’t live in a “male state” anymore, and that in Finland she has a right to decide over her own body.

Nasrin takes off her headscarf and divorces her authoritarian husband. The price for the divorce is harsh. The ex-husband abducts Nasrin’s three little daughters to Iraq, hoping this way he’d be able to force Nasrin to move back to the country where the husband does not have to listen to the wife.

Nasrin, however, does not want to give up her independence. Nasrin starts a fight to get her children back.