Derrière la palissade

"Fenced-in" is a film about Burmese women and their daily struggle in exile. The struggle to forget a history tainted with pain and hardship. The struggle to endure everyday life behind closed doors, living within the confines of a fence at the Mae Hla refugee camp in the north west of Thailand. Mae Hla is a place where time stands still and individual lives are blown off course or merely forgotten. For the past 20 years, 40,000 Karen, an ethnic minority oppressed by the Burmese dictatorship, have lived here. They have just about lost all hope of return to their homeland or successful integration in their host country. The majority or successful integration in their host country. The majority have resigned themselves to this way of life, a few, however, continue to fight. "Fenced-in" is the portrait of the three generations of Karen women: Ley Ley Win, Mah Gue Don and Poh Poh Pu. Amidst a culture where women are usually seen as second class and the circumstance of their political asylum, they have forged a new identity for themselves. "Fenced-in" is a film about women whose roles in life have taken on a heroic twist