The Braid

Summary

Adapted from her own powerful international best-selling novel, Laetitia Colombani‘s The Braid is a soul-stirring tale of the intertwined fates of three courageous women, spanning cultures, backgrounds and borders. In India, an “untouchable” dreams of affording her young daughter an education and will go to any lengths to do so. In Italy, a young woman who works at her beloved father’s wig workshop discovers that the family business is going bankrupt. In Canada, a hotshot attorney is on the verge of a huge promotion to become managing partner of a prestigious law firm, when she’s diagnosed with breast cancer. Three women, three continents, three destinies… They’ve never met but are bound by a thread that is intimate and quite unique.

Director: Laetitia Colombani

Starring: Kim Raver, Fotinì Peluso, Mia Maelzer