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 Shot under a veil of secrecy due to the sensitive nature of its subject, "The Lady," an inspiring drama based on the life of the Burmese pro-democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi, has finally finished filming and is ready to premiere at the Toronto Film Festival next month, also expected to be screened at a number of international film festivals in the fall before widely release in theaters everywhere. Inspired by one of the greatest love stories set against a background of political turmoil that still continues to this day, “The Lady” is the extraordinary story of how Aung San Suu Kyi and her husband Michael Aris gave up their happiness at great cost when the wife's country called upon her. Yet despite distance, long separations, danger and an actively hostile regime their love endured until the end. The Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi had been unjustly detained by the government of Myanmar (Burma) for 15 out of the past 21 years. She was released on November 13, 2010, after her latest 7 year term of detention expired and French director Luc Besson swiftly, and reasonably quietly, made a movie about her starring one of the most acclaimed Asian actresses Michelle Yeoh. But many quickly judge the film as another propaganda-ish political drama while in fact, since the first ever draft of the script penned by Rebecca Frayn, it was conceived to tell the incredible yet poignant love story between Aung San Suu Kyi and her late husband Michael Aris. It’s not a total biopic either since the story will only be set between 1988 – when Aung San Suu Kyi left Oxford to visit her sick mother and ended up staying – and 1999, the year when Aris died after being diagnosed with cancer. Aris had been forbidden from entering Burma, a decision that left Aung San Suu Kyi with the almost impossible decision of whether to stay or go. “The film builds to that incredible and depressing crossroads ,” said the movie producer Andy Harries who with his novelist and screenwriter wife, Frayn, visited Burma back in the early 1990s when Suu Kyi had just won the election but was under house arrest.

"It's not just a political story - it's a tragic love story. This is a woman educated at Oxford, married to an Englishman and who has two sons. She goes to her homeland to help for a few months and it turns into a 20-year house arrest," Harries added. "It's a love triangle. She is torn between her love of her country, which looks to her as a symbol of hope, and her family. Her husband, who spent 10 years campaigning for her, died of cancer having been denied entry to see her and she still remains estranged from her children.