Plot Summary for
Asylum (2003/I)

A forensic psychiatrist's wife, Stella, has a passionate doom-laden affair with a charismatic artist and madman, Edgar. As she is questioned after the events by the subtle and manipulative Dr. Cleave, we learn how she found love only by losing any contact with respectable life and any semblance of propriety. Her young son dies, her marriage to Max is ruined, and her lover is in fact dangerous in his jealousy and mad rage, but no matter what the consequences - his subversive spirit lives inside her, forms her, obsesses her. When she finally realizes she will never be free with Edgar, never have again what they had once, she must make a life and death decision. Dr. Cleave, who long wanted to possess Stella is left to tell her story: 'one of the saddest I know'.

Summary written by Michael Barlow

This is a documentary about a woman from Ghana who is reunited with her father after many years. She wants his blessing to marry a man she loves, but he tells her that she must marry a man of his choosing, and that she must undergo female circumcision. He holds her prisoner while awaiting the surgery, but she escapes and hides out until she raises enough money to flee to the U.S. When she arrives in New York, she is placed in a detention center.

Summary written by ras@rm.incc.net

Baaba Andoh fled Ghana in fear for her life, when her long-lost father tried to force her to undergo female genital mutilation. Arriving in the US with a phony passport, she was imprisoned by the INS for one year while her asylum case was being tried. Her harrowing story ends in victory, but she has not forgotten the thousands of asylum seekers who remain in detention today.

Summary written by Gini Reticker

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