Not without my daughter

In August 1984 a Michigan housewife accompanied her husband to his native Iran for a two-week vacation. Once there she and her four-year-old daughter became virtual prisoners. Her husband, suddenly a fanatic, was the jailer. Betty Mahmoody knew she had to get away. But in a land where women are near-slaves and Americans despised, her chances were slim. Her only hope lay in a clandestine network that would not take her child, and without her Betty would not leave.