The Yellow Room (2012)

Synopsys

A troubled Pakistani teen visits a Hispanic medicine woman at her obscure tenement home. There she has to share a room with another young woman who is also compelled to seek help in the Yellow Room.

Director's Statement:

When I first spoke to others about making The Yellow Room, many were surprised to learn about 'Ruda,' a medicinal herb used for centuries by women to end their unwanted pregnancy. Many never heard of the herb, and myself learned about it in a newspaper article about a young teenager from New York City, who had taken the drug in her 6th month of pregnancy, then disposed of the fetus in a trashcan.

Why make a movie about a drug, used to have illegal abortions, why bring to light a dark secret women don't want to talk about? One (male) person wondered why all the debate over abortion if it is that easy to have an abortion? Just take a pill! It's easy, cheap and fast! Because nothing that's cheap and fast is easy.

Throughout the entire debate among pro-choice and pro life advocates people rarely take a look at the experience itself. The feeling it leaves behind. The Aftermath of a decision made. Abortions are not easy for anyone. Many women find themselves cornered. pro-choice women cannot admit to themselves that abortions will leave them with psychological and emotional scars. pro-life woman cannot admit that no life is sometimes better than a new life if its existent would live among/in turmoil.

The Yellow Room is not making a statement about neither of these decisions. The film is an exploration of an old female condition: being trapped by law when wanting to take control over their own bodies or their trapped by guilt by going by actually doing it. Either way, women must deal with the consequences.