They tried to bury us but they didn't know we were seeds.
In 2005, Jane Mukunilwa was brutalized and obscenely tortured by Congo soldiers who raided her village. They left her for dead. She was driven to the nearest hospital (350 miles away from her village), where the doctor admitted he thought she would die before the night was out. But she didn't die that night, or during any of the nine surgeries she had to undergo to put her organs back in place.
Instead, she turned her torture into triumph by first learning how to read, then becoming a member of staff at the City of Joy, a transformational home for women of violence.
Watch Jane's story and the stories of far too many other women in the film, now on Netflix.
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