Desert Flower is a film that was shot in 2009 from a book of the same name. A model, actress, public figure decided to discover the truth about what is really happening with women in her home country. You will learn all this from Waris Deary. Desert Flower is an autobiographical book about the life of a little girl, and in the future, the world-famous model, who was born in Somalia in 1965 in a nomad family. Waris talks warmly about his family, and especially about his mother. The girl’s parents had 12 children. In the desert, very harsh conditions - it is difficult to get food, but you can’t even dream of water, since you can wait for it sometimes for several months. Therefore, only six children survived, and among them - a desert flower, Waris.
When the girl was 5 years old, she underwent a cruel rite of female circumcision, which forever changed her life. After that, the girl recovered for a long time, but even now she admits that she could not receive either physical or moral healing.
According to the laws of the desert, girls were married very early, and it was a great success to marry a daughter to a rich man, since as a payment for his wife he could ensure a comfortable life for her family for a long time. At the age of 13, Waris had to flee the family. She was afraid to be married to an old man who gave her father 5 camels as payment. Wandering around the desert for a long time, suffering from thirst and hunger, the girl finally gets to the city in which her sister lives. Waris began to live with her, working off her bread with the help of her housework.
Later, not getting along with her sister, the girl began to serve her aunts in the house, after which one very influential relative took her to London so that Waris would help his wife cope with household chores. She came to this city with the help of fake documents, which indicated that she was not 13, but 18 years old. The girl worked with her uncle for 4 years. When Waris was 16 years old, she was noticed by a photographer named Malcolm Fairchild, who invited her to become a model. Thinking that in this way he wants to get something from her, the girl refused. The photographer has repeatedly offered her this job, and even came to her aunt, but was refused. Therefore, they will be able to work together only after 2 years, when she still decides to accept his proposal. After 2 months, Waris was invited to a casting in the Crawford modeling agency, after which they not only accepted the main part of the models, but also gave the first order - filming for the Pirelli calendar. After concluding the contract, Waris, who had previously lived in a dormitory with students and retirees and worked as a cleaner at McDonald's, began to receive £ 500 for each day of filming. After this contract, the girl starred in the James Bond movie. But, contrary to the first successes, there was a lull in the career. Waris was left without a livelihood and was threatened with deportation to Somalia. She wanted to provide her mother with a comfortable old age, so the return was not part of her plans. The girl enters into a fictitious marriage with an American named Nigel. In the USA, she was waiting for success. She received many orders and collaborated with well-known companies. Gradually, her face began to appear more and more on the covers of fashion magazines, which brought her worldwide fame. After a while, Waris came back to Somalia, and she managed to see her mother. In the book "Desert Flower" describes all those emotions that the main character experienced when meeting with her mother.
Once, wandering into a jazz bar, she met her love there - drummer Dane, whom she later married. After a while, the couple had a son, who was named Aliki, which means “a mighty lion”.
Desert Flower is a book that impresses with its sincerity and penetration. This is the story of the hard way of a strong woman who has found happiness, but could not heal a spiritual wound. Later, the book “Desert Flower” was filmed so that people could see what is still happening in some countries, and struggled with it.