Synopsis of the movie "Woman Soldier" :

We are in 1916, the 1st World War raged for more than 2 yeas in England. 
Jane Smith, a young woman of 27 years old raise her young son, Paul, alone. Her husband went into battle 2 years ago when the war began.

Since his departure, the poor woman hasn’t got any news of him and she doesn’t know if he’s still alive. Her child has never seen his father because he was born after this one left. Jane waits until the 2 years of his son to be involved as a nurse because she wants to be as close as possible from her husband who is fighting and wants to make her own inquiry in order to know if is still alive or not.As she works, she has to leave Paul, to his grandmother, obviously with tearful goodbyes. The week after, she arrives to the makeshift hospital not far from the battlefield and the nightmare begin. Everyday she sees unthinkable scenes, where soldiers are yelling, screaming or almost dead are bringing to her. And everyday she gives the best of herself to help those men. It is very hard for her because she misses her son. The other nurses are going to become her friends and they will help each other has much as they can. But one day, she finaly learns by an injured soldier that her husband died on the front.After knewing it she doesn’t have the bravery to send a letter to inform her child and her mother, she wants that his son has a father, she couldn’t imagine the future of his son without a father. Month after month, the courageous woman doesn’t stop to give all of her to save the most of the soldiers as she can even if the conditions of life are bad. But one day, after trying to rescue a soldier, this one was out of danger thanks to her. As he was in physiotherapy, they learn to know each other and they fall in love over time. 4 months after, the man returns on battle, and the 2 lovers don’t cease to think of each other everyday. When the war finishes, her partner take care of her son as this one was his own child.

This movie was made to honour all the women who participated to the war, which weren’t fighting in battlefields, but they were fighting for their husbands, their family, their children, the soldiers, their homeland. We wanted to show their feeling throught this movie. For all those women who hardly worked for the victory of their country, for the end of this terrible war. For all this brave women who left their life to safe their children. 

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