Noble

Christina Noble grew up poor in Dublin. Her mother died, her father drank, and the children were split up into institutions. As a young woman she was raped and the child she bore was taken from her. She went to England, married, was beaten, got out. In her forties, after a dream, she decided to go to Vietnam. In Ho Chi Minh City she saw children living on the street and stayed. The foundation that carries her name has since reached hundreds of thousands of children. Stephen Bradley directs the Irish film; a hundred minutes, with Deirdre O'Kane as Christina and Sarah Greene as her younger self. It runs three different periods through each other. The real Christina Noble took part in the making of it.