I just finished watching Water. Must’ve used up a box of tissues.

If you’ve ever needed to believe in the value of social progress, this is the movie to watch. Water is a poignant movie about how widows lived in 1930s India. The story starts with eight -year old Chuyia, who is widowed when her much older husband dies. She is shaven bald and made to live in a widow’s hostel, to beg for her living and to basically await death, for widows must remain chaste to their dead husbands, and thoughts of remarrying are akin to sin. The film tells of the lives of a few widows in the hostel, of love found and lost, the tenacity of one’s faith even when the gods you believe in have sentenced you to a life of slow death, and the importance of change.

A must-MUST watch. If you have a Netflix account, you can watch it online for free.