Saving Face

Saving Face

Saving Face

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2012•40 min•CrimeDocumentary

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Sarkar Abbas

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Mohammad Jawad

Himself - Plastic Surgeon

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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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