Frozen River

These days I'm feasting on a steady diet of movies that I'd been downloading over the past couple of months. Very selected and chosen. Yesterday was Frozen River. It portrays the friendship and bond that develops between two women from different backgrounds and cultures but similar life-situations. Out of desperation to earn money, they smuggle immigrants illegally into the country driving over a frozen river; their attempts being dogged by the law enforcement officials and family situation. And when finally the law catches up with them and one of them has to go to jail, the decision one makes, makes all the difference.

We often think that life is hard and there is little help. Often only the former is true. Help arrives from different quarters and in ways totally unexpected. And when we get help, it changes our life for ever.