For five years, extremist groups launched a campaign to discredit this movie, death threats, fires and ferocius disturbances to prevent this movie was made.But, against all the odds and assuming the risks involved, Deepa Mehta decided the world was aware this reality is still running.A haunting story that meets two women of different ages, one of them is an eight years old and the another one is still in her early twenties, both of them united by a same cause, they' re widows.According the ancestral codes, both must live for life a sort of perennial isolation as well as any chance to reconstruct their lives. When her husband dies, the half of them are dead too.So, in this context of prejudices and sacred precepts, between both of them a warm friendship will emerge, but tragic and dark clouds will hover over both to change their lives irrevocably.Remarkable, superb and potent film of this brilliant, talented and sensitive filmmaker.Do not even think for a moment to miss it.