Baltimore Women's Film Festival 2008

Assault In Brooklyn is a story of domestic violence and abuse. The film starts out with Marta telling the story of how she came to America with Jimmy her husband of twenty years. Suddenly, we hear through the doors the abuse she is suffering once again by her husband, but this time it’s a little different because she is fighting back. The doors swing open and we see Marta running for her life to escape her abuser. As she is running she enlists the help of her neighbors who want to have nothing to do with her or her problems. It is obvious that they have heard the fighting of Marta and Jimmy many times and have become immune. We see her frantically trying to escape with terror and fear in her eyes. She is a desperate woman who will do anything to get out of this tourmentous world of abuse. Somehow she escapes and makes it to a cab that opens her to a different world of tenderness and compassion. These are feelings she has not known since she was a child. This Jamaican cab driver tells her of love, kindness, caring and most of all God’s love. He shows her how this is what the world is missing and this sparks memories in Marta which cause her to tell her story.