With startling honesty and immediacy, Newfoundland filmmaker Gerry Rogers began filming her ordeal with breast cancer the moment her hair started falling out from chemotherapy. You are with her at 4 in the morning when she expresses her deepest fears and her most intimate feelings; she takes you to her doctor’s appointments and family gatherings; you are in the chemo room as the toxic red liquid is pumped into her body; you are in the radiation chamber as she gets zapped with the equivalent of 10,000 chest x-rays; you join in the singing and magic of the most joyous Christmas party; you attend the pot-luck wig “hair-raiser” which she organizes in defiance of cancer; you laugh with her as she lies next to a bald-headed seal that rests on a local beach near her Carbonear home. You are there as Gerry lives life with her partner Peggy, who nurses, films, and loves her. You won’t watch this film, you will experience it – and you will never see the world quite the same way again.

Gerry

Gerry Rogers is a long time filmmaker. She has produced and/or directed over 20 films, among them the internationally award-winning The Vienna Tribunal, After The Montreal Massacre and Kathleen Shannon: on Film, Feminism and Other Dreams. She is currently doing promotional work with My Left Breast and guest speaking on topics related to breast cancer. She lives in the gorgeous community of Carbonear, Newfoundland, at NaGeira House a glorious bed & breakfast she started with her partner Peg Norman.

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Credits

DIRECTOR EDITOR CAMERA PRODUCER MUSIC

Gerry Rogers Terre Nash Peggy Norman, Nigel Markham, et al Paul Pope Paul Steffler

Produced by

Pope Productions Ltd. in association with CBC Newsworld.

• Newfoundland & Labrador Film Development Corporation
• Canadian Television Fund
• Telefilm Canada
• NIFCO
• Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit
• Newfoundland & Labrador Film & Video Industry Tax Credit