Summary: This episode tells the tales of women who braved the journey from their homelands for a better way of life in America. Profiled are Guatemalan Rodi Alvarado, who fled to the US after a decade of beatings by her husband, and whose petition for political asylum became a landmark case; Rosa Cavalleri, brutalized by her husband until she fled Italy in 1887, now celebrated in her hometown as a woman...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005

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