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TALKING TO THE TREES

By Ilaria BORRELLI

Drama - Completed 2012

A middle-class Parisian woman embarks on a quest to rescue the child
her husband has abused from a Cambodian brothel and return her to
her family in the jungle.

- Year of production
- 2012
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- ITALY, CAMBODIA
- Languages
- ENGLISH, ITALIAN
- Duration
- 90 mn
- Director(s)
- Ilaria BORRELLI
- Writer(s)
- Ilaria BORRELLI, Guido FREDDI
- Producer(s)
- Guido FREDDI
- Synopsis
- Mia (Ilaria Borrelli) a beautiful and successful Paris based
  bored by her bourgeois existence, flies to Cambodia to
  surprise her timber trader husband Xavier (Philippe Caroit) in order for
  them to create the baby she longs for.
  But her hope for a romantic welcome are dashed when she spies her
  husband in a brothel having sex with an eleven year-old, Srey. Mia, her
  world turned upside down, resolves to rescue Srey and return her to
  the remote village from where she was abducted. Mia strikes a
  repulsive bargain with Sanan the brothel owner and sacrifices her own
  body to a high-powered government offi cial to liberate the little girl
  and she and Srey embark on their long journey home.
  Soon after Mia discovers that Srey has
  stowed away Daa and Malin, two other
  young escapees from the brothel. But
  they had also stolen money from Sanan
  and Mia realizes this means they would
  now be hunted down. Torn by the
  sudden additional responsibility, Mia
  reluctantly agrees to return all three
  children to their separate villages
  spread wide across the Cambodian jungle.
  Fleeing for their lives, the girls embark on a perilous road trip to
  freedom filled with humour and beauty, but tainted with illness and
  the constant threat from their pursuers.
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- Production schedule
- completed