The Murderess

On a poor, sun-bleached island in the Aegean, old Hadoula sits awake beside her ailing infant granddaughter, and begins to think the unthinkable.

She has spent her whole life in service to others - to a husband, to children, to the relentless burden of dowries that beggar every family with daughters. She has watched women suffer from the cradle to the grave, valued only for the sons they bear and the misery they inherit. And in the long, sleepless dark, a terrible mercy takes root in her min...