The Milk of Sorrow

This movie starts with and an old woman narrating her sufferings. She states that while she was pregnant, she was brutally gang-raped and her unborn daughter saw everything from inside her. The grief and sorrow of the mother passes to the daughter via breast milk called The Milk of Sorrow. The daughter grows up living with her mother and develops a fearful personality. Her fears are so extreme that she keeps a potato in her vagina to avoid being raped. In spite of doctors advising her to stop this practice, she prefers to take risks of repeated infections and declines surgery. Her mother dies in her grief. She wants to take her mother’s dead body back to the village for cremation but has no money for the preservation of the body, buying a coffin, and transportation to the village. To earn money, she starts working but the female employer betrays her and leaves her alone on a road. Her uncle and a coworker help her getting over fears. She finally takes her mother’s dead body near an ocean and buries her there, wishing her calmness and peace of the ocean.

Dr. Bharti Raizada