In August 1984, Michigan housewife Betty Mahmoody accompanied her husband to his native Iran for a two-week vacation.
Now the True Story of this courageous woman and her breathtaking odyssey bur.
Their only hope for escape lay in a dangerous underground that would not take her child...
To her horror, she found herself and her four-year-old daughter, Mahtob, virtual prisoners of a man rededicated to his Shiite Moslem faith, in a land where women are near-slaves and Americans are despised.
In August 1984, Michigan housewife Betty Mahmoody accompanied her husband to his native Iran for a two-week vacation