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The Sarah Balabagan Story

1997

This drama recounts the true, wrenching case of Sarah Balabagan, a young Filipina domestic worker in the United Arab Emirates sentenced to death after killing the employer who assaulted her, and the international outcry that followed. A social-issue biopic.

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