At major theatres. 14A “Better hell than a heaven with no dignity,” a character says in Heaven on Earth, Deepa Mehta’s masterful new drama of domestic violence.

In Mehta's new film, Heaven on Earth, Maji is the mother-in-law in the Brampton home where Punjabi-born Chand takes up her arranged marriage.

And with Heaven on Earth, she has made one of her most powerful films. Arriving in Canada, Chand finds that her husband is depressive and irritable, and physically abuses her without provocation.