Ummuye, Behiye, Ummu, Fatma K., Cennet, Saniye, Fatma F., Zeynep and Nesime are nine peasant women living in Arslankoy, a mountain village in southern Turkey. They spend their days working hard in the fields, on the construction site and at home.
To lighten the burden of life, these women come together for a wholly different reason - to write and perform a play based on their own life stories. Gathering at the local high school, which they were shy of even stepping into until that day, they work with the principal, Mr. Huseyin, revealing and confronting the life stories they were afraid even to tell themselves. For days on end, under the curious gazes of the village men, they work tirelessly, discuss and create with much fun a play, "The Outcry of Women!"
This funny and touching documentary is about the development process of this play and the changes the women went through during this period.
"Boisterously insightful, hilarious and socially relevant in equal measure, and the perfect antidote to today’s crop of dryly crusading, good-for-you documentaries. Not to be missed."
- New York Magazine
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