USA
1997, 16mm, Color, 67 min.
Director: Lee Grant
Producers: Joe Feury, Lee Grant
Executive Producer: A Joseph Feury Production
Co-Producers: Viginia Cotts, Roberta Morris-Purdee
Cinematographer: Hart Perry Editor: Milton Ginsberg
Music: Kieko Matsui, Kazu Matsui

Oscar-winning film maker and actress Lee Grant's powerful documentary profiles the astonishing strength and courage of a diverse group of women who are at various stages of their battle with breast cancer. Throughout the film, actress and talk-show host Rosie O'Donnell offers in-depth commentary about her own mother's death from cancer, and her need to make sense of numerous other cancer deaths on her block in suburban Long Island, an area known for having one of the highest rates of breast cancer in the world. The program also features the intensely personal stories of several other women whose lives have been dramatically changed by breast cancer: Mary Kay Sanders, a 33-year-old mother of four who won the 1997 Mrs, Minnesota pageant; Oni Faida Lampley, a thirtysomething African-America actress and mother of two; Lee Plamondon, one of three sisters, all in their 30's and 40's, diagnosed with breast cancer; and Judith Haberkorn, President of Public and Operator Services at NYNEX Corporation. Through their stories, we witness firsthand how women and their families struggle with this disease, how they learn to take care of themselves, and very often go on to help others.