Shades of Disappointment

When Afaf and her friends defy the odds to go watch the romantic film Fifty Shades at the movies, their little adventure opens closed tunnels and unhealed wounds, especially for Afaf who used to be an avid reader of such romantic novels in her Arabic native language back home when she was a teenager until her dreams were buried into a forced marriage. Now that her daughter Farah is facing the same ordeal of forced marriage, Afaf goes back home with a clear vision as to what her stance must be and it’s certainly different than the one her own mother had.