Saving Face
Mar 08 2012
•1h 40m
•Crime, Documentary
Every year hundreds of people - mostly women - are attacked with acid in Pakistan. Follow several of these survivors, their fight for justice, and a Pakistani plastic surgeon who has returned to his homeland to help them restore their faces and their lives.
Cast
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Sarkar Abbas
Herself - Advocate High Court
Mohammad Jawad
Himself - Plastic Surgeon
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