Set in Cape Town 1952, The World Unseen opens a door on the tightly knit community of South Asians in South Africa.
In the pressure cooker of apartheid South Africa, two women meet and their worlds are turned upside down. Miriam (Lisa Ray) is all things traditional - a dutiful daughter to her family, a doting mother to her children, a conventionally clothed, demure and subservient wife to her husband Omar (Parvin Dabas). Amina (Sheetal Sheth) is all things radical - single, free-spirited, independent, she runs her own café bar business and wears masculine clothes. Their lives rarely cross. In the face of outraged disapproval, their friendship flourishes. But the price, for Miriam, is the discovery of impossible truths about her marriage. In a system that divides white from black, black from Asian and the women from men, what chance is there for an unexpected love to survive?
Dir. Shamim Sarif - 2007 - UK - 112 mins - Cert 15 - Film Sales Company Inc
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