'You are here for the rest of your life. Do you understand? You are not leaving Iran. You are here until you die.'Betty Mahmoody and her husband, Dr Sayyed Bozorg Mahmoody ('Moody'), came to Iran from the USA to meet Moody's family. With them was their four-year-old daughter, Mahtob. Appalled by the squalor of their living conditions, horrified by what she saw of a country where women are merely chattels and Westerners are despised, Betty soon became desperate to return to the States. But Moody, and his often vicious family, had other plans. Mother and daughter became prisoners of an alien culture, hostages of an increasing tyrannical and violent man.
Eventually, Betty was given the name of a man who would plan their perilous route out of Iran, a journey that few women or children had ever made. Their nightmare attempt to return home began in a bewildering snowstorm...
An alarming and confronting true story with regard to the Iranian and Islamic culture. I recently saw the movie, though does not have the substance of the book (isn't that always the case?!) however, it was nice to see it in this media aswell.
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Disturbing to think women have to live through this. My social justice side of me scream when i read or hear of things like this. i'm yet to watch the movie but as Chloe said good to see stuff like this in the public eye
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