Ria, a seven-year-old girl growing up in a village, is led by her mother to a place where a group of women from her community await her. Here she is mutilated by an unqualified cutter, who completes the cultural FGM-ritual that ensures she will one day be taken as a wife. The child, once old enough, goes on to be forcibly married and moved away from her family to the England. Eventually, Ria seeks help in escaping the life she is trapped in, but the life of her two younger sisters hang in the balance. Can she change her elders' minds and prevent them from being led down the same path? Or will they become three more of 200 million women across the globe whose wings have been crushed by FGM?
Tania Staite is a London-based Actor and TV Presenter. In 2017, Tania filmed two features including Crushed Wings 2021, in the UK and Nepal and Instant Death (2017), starring Lou Ferrigno. As a presenter, Tania has over 500 hours of live unscripted, auto-cue and pre-record TV, web and live presenting experience. She is experienced with switched and open talk-back. Her experience includes 3 years on Bid TV and Price Drop TV. Tania also presented on Psychic Today TV on Sky 886.