"A woman goes to the doctor"

Again I cannot avoid watching sad or sensitive movies on long flights.

So out of the dozens of movies and series I could have watched, I chose this Dutch movie about a husband and wife whose lives and marriage are radically affected by cancer. “Komt een vrouw bij de dokter” (“A woman goes to the doctor”) portrays (at times graphically) how a life-threatening illness can change people, can change lives. First the chemo, then the radiation, the hair loss, the puking, the tears, the fears… the pain, suffering, prayers and desperation rolled into a roller coaster ride of up and down emotions.

Of everything, this one line put it best: “Cancer humiliates us all”.