The Lady plot
"From House Arrest to Parliament"
Film about the life of Aung San Suu Kyi, a Myanmar politician, leader of the nonviolent movement for human rights and democracy in Myanmar (formerly Burma) and winner of the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize. The film chronicles the events that take place between 1988 and 1999. In 1988 Suu Kyi leaves Oxford to visit her sick mother in Burma, eventually staying there. When her husband, Dr. Michael Aris, whom she hadn't seen since 1995, was diagnosed with prostate cancer in England in March 1999, Suu Kyi was faced with the almost impossible choice of staying in Burma or visiting him on his last sickbed, risking her return if she returned. would no longer be allowed into the country.