She walked and talked differently, so they tried to hide her, but her determination to Live and Love, transformed her, and all those who knew her.
The true story of a small-town girl, with physical limitations, abandoned as a baby, bravely builds her life and creates a love story that crosses continents through the romance of letter writing. An empowering and cinematic story of love and resilience.—Rani Sitaram
The true story of a small-town girl, with physical limitations, abandoned as a baby, bravely builds her life and creates a love story that crosses continents through the romance of letter writing. An empowering and cinematic story of love and resilience.
When Meena shares her story, we are taken on an inspirational true-life journey that begins in 1960s South Africa. Meena is born disabled through forceps delivery. Believing she was abandoned, little Meena, bravely creates a life for herself at the orphanage. Only when Meena is able to walk independently can she return to her parental home. A new family, a language and culture that is foreign to her, the courageous Meena finds her new normal. Meena's father Veer teaches her to read from glossy magazines, where she discovers pen pals. Excited, Meena writes to friends all over the world. Just one writes back.
Meena's American pen pal Eddie Gibson is so deeply impacted by her letters, that he changes his previously superficial view of the world. Eddie has a full life which includes having choices in life and love, while Meena, being isolated and shunned, never had those choices. Eddie is so enamored by this strong woman from another continent, whom he has never seen, that he chooses Meena over all else. Through the romance of letter writing, daringly, Meena and Eddie fall in love, even when it seems they will never be destined to be together. Eventually Meena, is teased by the choice of a new life with the man she loves, only to realize that her choices have consequences. An empowering and cinematic true story of love and resilience.
