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We Can Do Hard Things
The film was an adaptation of this book, which was inspired by true events in a Mennonite colony in Bolivia where girls and women were systematically raped. The film imagines a fictional reckoning where the women discuss how to respond to the abuse.
Women Talking was based on a novel written by Miriam Taves, which was inspired by real events that occurred in a Mennonite colony in rural Bolivia.
— Episode: 185. Should We Stay & Fight, Leave, or D...
Episode: 185. Should We Stay & Fight, Leave, or Do Nothing?...
The film was an adaptation of this book, which was inspired by true events in a Mennonite colony in Bolivia where girls and women were systematically raped. The film imagines a fictional reckoning where the women discuss how to respond to the abuse.
Women Talking was based on a novel written by Miriam Taves, which was inspired by real events that occurred in a Mennonite colony in rural Bolivia.
It was a 2,500 person, very conservative colony in which boys and men systematically raped approximately 150 girls and women aged 3 to 65.