WRETCHEDNESS

Ma Mia, a young, beautiful and intelligent Muslim girl, was a happy girl. She lived in a small village with her parents. She was in school and had dreams of one day becoming a medical doctor. Then, her father betroths her to a very rich old man. The fourth wife to a man older than her father. A man with cattle and wealth. And her mother is helpless because she obeys her husband like all the women in the village. Ma Mia runs away from home to a town. The only man willing to take her in is a poor beggar who finally becomes her husband. They have two beautiful daughters who equally beg with them at streets corners. In spite of all challenges, she is in a quest for a way out of poverty. She is grooming her girls into educated and successful young women. She struggles to get her family out of poverty. But one night she is kidnapped and they girls are left to fend for themselves in a hostile world. Can they make it by themselves in a highly indebted poor country? and then you wonder if beggars fall in love too.