A young woman leaves her abusive husband in Holland to seek refuge in St. Maarten. But the law has changed since the island obtained country status and she is stranded at the airport. The Chief Immigration Officer is a man of integrity and exemplary service, who is torn between enforcing the new law and instinctively helping a woman he doesn’t know and whom he meets on the anniversary of his wife’s death.
Charlene Walker
Maggy Smith
Desery Watson
Tina McCarty
Clarice Davenport
Antonio Walker
Joshua Richards
Grace Hopkins
Keisha Hill
A young woman leaves her abusive husband in Holland to seek refuge in St. Maarten. But the law has changed since the island obtained country status and she is stranded at the airport. The Chief Immigration Officer is a man of integrity and exemplary service, who is torn between enforcing the new law and instinctively helping a woman he doesn’t know and whom he meets on the anniversary of his wife’s death.
2011-01-01
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