The story of Salma, by Kim Longinotto
Selected for Sundance Film Festival World Cinema Documentary Competition 2013.
From the age of 13, her family kept her locked up in this room.
Salma: This was the only window to the outside world.
What could you see?
Nothing. Just a bit of street. You could only see a little bit. That's all.
After 6 years in the room, her mother tricked her into marrying.
Mother: I suppose I was too young to care.
Her husband's family kept her inside and she began to write poems in secret.
Husband: I keep saying no rice. You keep bringing it.
Most nights, he's pick a fight. Tell me to stop writing.
Then he bought some acid and threatened to pour it on my face. I was so scared.
By the time her poems reached a publisher, she'd been kept inside for 20 years.
