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Saving Face

2012Movie40 min

CrimeDocumentary
76
GreatGoodWatch score
IMDb8.0Rotten Tomatoes–78%
76
GreatGoodWatch score
IMDb8.0Rotten Tomatoes–78%

Summary

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.

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