Synopsis

A 2 year old baby girl lay alone on a bamboo mat in a government orphanage in Northern Thailand, 11 years ago. She had been abandoned in the AIDS room”. Her medical chart read: “bploi wai dtaai: Leave her to die”. In a country that ostracizes those living with HIV, one extraordinary woman, Avis Rideout, was determined to prove that through loving and caring for those rejected and abandoned due to the HIV, it is the incredible power of love that can and is…saving lives.

Genre: Documentary – International Human Rights

Length: 49 mins

Date: June 2008

Director(s): Antonia Thomson

Editor(s): Antonia Thomson

Producer(s): Antonia Thomson. Sean Buckley

Original Music Score: Voodoo Highway Music & Post

Sweeteners: Sharktank Digital

Title Design: Scott Wise, Compass36