The Power of Touching our Shame

This past year I saw the most moving film about the healing of shame I have ever seen: it's called The Secret Life of Words. It deals with a deaf woman who lives and works in Ireland; but poses as a nurse in order to assist a badly burned man on an oil rig in the North Sea (Tim Robbins). he has been blinded in the fire and his eyes are bandaged so he cannot see her. She is incredibly walled off -- and yet she serves the burn victim with tenderness and mercy. (She feels safe with this blind, helpless man.) But as he returns to health, he starts to probe into her soul and care for her. As it turns out, is a survivor of the war in Yugoslavia. She bears scars all over her body from the days and days of gang rapes and torture she suffered. The scene where she allows him to begin to gently feel her scars, and he, in his blindness, begins to weep, is the embodiment of how love and tears touch our shame. I can't help but think of the verses about Jesus -- "by his stripes, we are healed", and "he was wounded for our transgressions" and "his hands and feet are eternally scarred." I wonder if anyone has seen this movie, or something similar. How did it touch you? Want to talk about it?