It is later revealed that Martin only took up with Mona for a project. Martin finds out the truth and is heartbroken, but later falls in love with Mona, while Lisa falls in love with Leo and they marry. Later, the two make a deal and Mona presents herself as Lisa to save her father from debt. The two cross paths when Lisa's father Juancho arranges a marriage for her with a rich business man, Martin Co, but Lisa is against it and goes into hiding under one of her workers, Leo Tabayoyong. While Lisa is stylish and cultured, Mona is tomboyish and rustic with a kind, loving heart for her parents and friends. Lisa is a rich, strict, hardworking woman while Mona survives as a bet collector in cockfights. "As in my other films profiling rural poverty," says Sutherland, "I was trying to reach out to another forgotten corner of the American landscape, this time to put a face on a Native family so that we could see them close-up with all the detail that illuminates the rich reality of their lives." "Kind Hearted Woman" is the third film produced by David Sutherland with FRONTLINE, following "The Farmer's Wife" and "Country Boys."Ī story about two lookalikes, Ramona-Mona for short-and Lisa. ![]() Her quest to heal her family, find a man worthy of her love, build a career, and fulfill her goal of returning to her reservation to help prevent the abuse of women and children, takes her on an intimate and inspiring journey full of heartbreak, discovery, and redemption. Robin's battles in tribal court with her ex-husband for custody of the children, even after he is convicted of abusive sexual contact with his daughter, illuminates how serious this problem is on the reservation. ![]() Sutherland follows Robin over three years as she struggles to raise her two children, further her education, and heal herself from the wounds of sexual abuse she suffered as a child. In a special two-part series, acclaimed filmmaker David Sutherland creates an unforgettable portrait of Robin Charboneau, a 32-year-old divorced single mother and Oglala Sioux woman living on North Dakota's Spirit Lake Reservation.
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