Planet in Focus International Environmental Film & Video Festival

Roses are thorns in Jane's hands - with a lot of chemicals. We buy roses from Holland where the world's biggest flower auction sells 4 billion Euros of blooms a year. The 65 farms exist in Naivasha, Kenya because pay can be low and environmental constraints are flexible. Flower farm worker Jane, fears being raped if she goes to the village toilet at night. She needs to have sex with her supervisor for fear of being fired. Oscar was fired, and now collects water, selling it from his donkeys instead of being a job-less man. Kennedy is a fisherman who catches only one fish a day as the lake is sucked up by the flower farms. And Eunice from Worker's Rights Watch asks where do the flowers go? Only those with a fair mark can be sold in Holland, and few farms have certification. Jane's dream for her own business and school for her children float above these troubles, like the scent of a rose.