Not Without My Daughter
In 1984, Betty Mahmoody's husband took his wife and daughter to meet his family in Iran. He swore they would be safe. They would be happy. They would be free to leave. He lied.
A tense, harrowing true-story thriller about a woman's desperate fight to escape her abusive husband and reclaim her daughter from a hostile foreign country.
An American woman, trapped in Islamic Iran by her brutish husband, must find a way to escape with her daughter as well.
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