Not Without My Daughter

In August 1984, Betty Mahmoody, a Michigan housewife, accompanied her husband on a trip to his homeland, Iran, for a planned two-week vacation. However, to her utter dismay, she and her four-year-old daughter, Mahtob, became effectively imprisoned by her husband, who had embraced a fervent devotion to his Shiite Muslim faith. Trapped in a land where women were treated as subservient and Americans were held in contempt, their only glimmer of hope lay in a perilous underground network that couldn’t ensure the safety of Betty’s child.